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Subject: Re: Mutexes and semaphores (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf 
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Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > I agree - the idea of recursive mutices evil and should go, but the
> > idea of an owner should not.  It's nice to be able to write code that
> > KASSERTs that it already owns a given mutex.
> 
> I'm  not sure I agree. Having lived through Solaris hell with recursive mutex
> panics, I rather like the BSD/OS approach.

chiming in on this a bit late, but nevertheless this begs the question:
aren't you shooting the messanger here?

> -matt

Michael
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Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'


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