On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Ian Joyner <ianjoy...@me.com> wrote:
> You are probably looking for something like Dahm locks (invented by Dave Dahm 
> on the Burroughs B5000 in the 1960s). Here is a long paper on locks including 
> this origin:

There are plenty of sufficient locking primitives already implemented
and debugged on the platform. There is really no excuse for an
application developer to go around writing your own or reimplementing
ones that others have invented.

--Kyle Sluder
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