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are semaphores deprecated in favour of mutexes these days?

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Subject: are semaphores deprecated in favour of mutexes these days?
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:56:51 -0400 (EDT)
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  that is, at least binary semaphores?  and are there any non-binary
semaphores actually in use in the kernel?

rday
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