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From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores
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Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

>>  For me it sounds like you just want to rename semaphores to some other
>>  name that people don't use them for normal locking?
> 
> Would it really be a good idea to give a synchronization concept that
> behaves exactly like a semaphore another name than "semaphore" ? The
> semaphore concept is well known and is taught in every computer
> science course.

What about calling it counting_semaphore, if it's to be used for this purpose?