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In message <AC4BCD04-6555-4AD1-BBCD-3C706852ECCF@bsdimp.com>, Warner Losh write
s:

>There's a lot of prior art for the committee to choose from.

Same thing for struct packing to match a protocol specification.

And as for assert_mutex_held() I belive some of the prior art is only
a few hours longer than the word "mutex".

I really wonder what they think they are trying to do some times...


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