Autzoo.1387
net.bugs.v7
utcsrgv!utzoo!henry
Mon Feb 15 00:02:20 1982
lock(2)
The V7 lock() call has a major bug, which I heard about at the
Usenix meeting.  The following should be added to the manual page
BUGS section:

.PP
It actually doesn't work, because the scheduler doesn't know about
it and keeps \fInice\fRing the process when it refuses to swap out.

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