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Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 20:44:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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On Fri, 30 May 2008, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > We've had a 32-bit rwsemaphore in the kernel for a *long* time.
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> You misread what I wrote.

No, you do.

The kernel calls reader-writer locks rwsemaphores.

		Linus