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SubjectRe: Stops Pentiums dead (and how does Cyrix perform?)

On 9 Nov 1997, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Beside that you cannot simply trap on the `lock' prefix it is of
> course completely wrong that `lock' isn't used on user-level. glibc
> plus its other libraries use it quite often to handle concurrency.

Anyway, if you can trap it, you can then check if the opcode is bad - if
not, return. It'll be a minor (?) performance hit though..
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