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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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:On 12-Nov-01 Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>     You want to be very careful not to bloat the concept.  We
:>     already have severe bloatage in the mutex code and that has
:>     led to a lot of unnecessary complexity.  A huge amount,
:>     in fact.  We have so many types of mutexes it makes my
:
:Err, hang on.  I wasn't doing shared counts.   refcount_shared() would be a
:simple primitive to return true if the refcount was > 1.  I was trying to see

   Sorry.  Posted that before I read the patch.

					-Matt

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