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Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to write  some experimental mutex operations similar to those
> > in -current, but to do differnt things (e.g. a read/write lock)
> > however, I am having some problems with the __asm  stuff.
> 
> Julian; Wheels were invented around 1500BC.  We don't need to go through
> all that again.

I'm doing it not for inclusion but for education.
And in any case they may have been invented already but we don't HAVE 
suitable read/write locks in FreeBSD.. only the 'lock mangler'
which is certainly not going to su[[ly me with locks for netgraph.


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