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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Robin Holt wrote:

> I don't think this lock mechanism is completely working.  I have
> gotten a few failures trying to dereference 0x100100 which appears to
> be LIST_POISON1.

How does xpmem unregistering of notifiers work?