in reply to Re^5: OT: Locking and syncing mechanisms available on *nix.
in thread OT: Locking and syncing mechanisms available on *nix.

I know, but as I don't have anything I want to mutually exclude access to, I don't want to use the (by all accounts very expensive) mutex mechanism.

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