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Date:      Sat, 25 May 2002 21:43:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Mutex statistics script
Message-ID:  <200205260143.g4Q1hNtX089692@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On 26 May 2002 02:12:11 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said:

> Here's a list of the ten most frequently acquired mutices (over a

ObLanguagePeeve:

``Mutex'' is a portmanteau of ``MUTual EXclusion''; a Latinate plural
is thus entirely inappropriate.  The plural of ``mutex'' is ``mutexes''.

-GAWollman


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