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Time for a new semaphore type?

Posted Apr 29, 2005 0:18 UTC (Fri) by julian_sun (guest, #27892)
Parent article: Time for a new semaphore type?

How is this different from spawning another kernel thread to wait for the lock and executes the function when the new thread acquires the lock? Seems to me it is "much ado about nothing".

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