Note that the "few cases" in question imply _all_ of the current broken
library spinlocks, for example.
Don't think "POSIX semaphores", but think "fast locking" in the general
case. I will bet you $1 in small change that most normal locking by far is
for the kind of thread-safe stuff libc does right now.
Linus
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