Re: recursive locking in linux?

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> if one wanted to go through the kernel tree and replace semaphores
> with mutexes, one would have to be *very* careful to do that only
> where the semantics made sense, no?

and.. a very large portion of that has been done already.
(We used an automated script to check for common flags to show
non-mutexness, and then did a quick hand audit).


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