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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 01:04:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Subject: Re: Mutexes and semaphores
Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>,
	Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>,
	Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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On 27-Sep-00 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Right now I can't even do getpid() properly because we don't have
> read/write-barriers.

We do have these.  I have some helper functions I'll try to run by the
new-bus list tonight.

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