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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:22:42 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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Subject: Re: FW: spinlocks dont work
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Brian Gerst wrote:
> On UP, spinlocks are no-ops.

No they aren't.  They disable preemption.

-- Jamie