Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.16-rc1-git4] accessfs: a permission managing filesystem | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:54:15 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 10:51 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> >DECLARE_MUTEX will go away. > >> > >> And be replaced by... DEFINE_SEMAPHORE? > > > >... or just go away entirely, depending if there are any users of it > >left after all mutexes have been converted to DEFINE_MUTEX()... > > Does that imply that struct semaphore be removed too?
not per se
> You can't do that.
Exactly why not? Assuming there are zero users left in the kernel..... (which highly obviously is a prerequisite for even thinking about such a step)
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