In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes:
>"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> o->busy is protected by the objhead mutex because otherwise we would have
>> to grab all the objects mutexes in the hash lookup.
>>
>> The busy flag is very seldomly manipulated, and this is much more efficie=
>nt.
>
>Fine, but what is the locking protocol when o has no objhead?

Obviously nobody else will ever check the busy flag in that case,
so the locking isn't necessary.

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