On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 07:20  AM, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> As might be evident from the above, I'm leaning in the direction of
> the first solution if that is in fact possible to do.

Yes, the first solution is better.  I actually have a bunch of these 
changes implemented already for various platforms on the `newlock' 
branch in the CVS repository (used for spl-protected mutexes).

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>