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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote this message on Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 13:18 -0400:
> If I call copyout() holding one of my mutexes, it will always complain
> about a LOR, even if the mutex is freshly initiated:

Calling copyout while holding a mutex is not allowed...  If the page
isn't in memory, it could take many seconds for the page to be swapped
back in during which time your mutex will continue to be held.

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