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Julian Elischer wrote:
> If I make an exclusive rmlock request on an rmlock that has a busy set 
> of readers coming and going, do new readers wait for me to get
> my turn, or do I have to wait for a moment where there are no more 
> readers before I get a go?
in fact if the requests are of the order

reader, reader, writer, reader, reader, writer, reader

is the order of evaluation defined? is it preserved?

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