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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Arguments for single-mutex-exclusion on protected types
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:38:14 +0100
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* Jacob Sparre Andersen:

>>> Isn't that the most efficient implementation on a POSIX system?
>>
>> Even if it were, why Ada RTL should care?
>
> Because my Ada run-time is running on top of a POSIX system.

A lot of software provides its own locks, for some reason or other.

And nowadays, POSIX has got read-write locks anyway.