Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:12:12 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386 rw_semaphores fix |
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Fixup for user space is probably not that nice (CMPXCHG is used there by > linuxthreads)
In user space I'm not convinced that you couldn't do the same thing equally well by just having the proper dynamically linked library. You'd not get in-lined lock primitives, but that's probably fine.
Linus
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