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    I have to apologize for my stupidity and rapid response.  Forgive my
    lack of sleep. I was staring at the wrong spinlock.h.

    Indeed, linuxthreads do end up calling sigsuspend() when they fail to
    acquire a mutex within a given time, and will/might receive a signal when
    the mutex becomes available again. So at this level, there is kernel
    level synchronization going on.

    I need to think some more, obviously (!! :), about whether this is
    enough to ensure correct order scheduling of a threaded pipeline on an
    MP machine.

    --p

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