> I'm trying to imagine a case where 32,000 sharing a semaphore was anything but a > major failure and I can't. To me: the result of an attempt by the 32,768th locker > should be a kernel panic. Is there a reasonable scenario where this is wrong? 32000 threads all trying to lock the same piece of memory ? Its not down to reasonable scenarios its down to malicious scenarios - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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