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SubjectRe: rw_semaphores
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> I'm trying to imagine a case where 32,000 sharing a semaphore was anything but a 
> major failure and I can't. To me: the result of an attempt by the 32,768th locker
> should be a kernel panic. Is there a reasonable scenario where this is wrong?

32000 threads all trying to lock the same piece of memory ? Its not down
to reasonable scenarios its down to malicious scenarios

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