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SubjectRe: 2.2.1 lockup (SCSI related)
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  dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW) writes:
> [ semaphores made recursive ]
> It's even more absurd that such a fundamental change in the semantics
> of a core kernel primitive was made during the deep code freeze.
>
What's the problem with allowing recursive semaphores? It doesn't break
anything which wasn't broken before. The only difference is that now your
code can continue while before it would deadlock.

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