Paul Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > It is usually too easy to produce a nearly correct script, and too > difficult to produce an exactly right one, for all but serious sed or > perl regex hackers. I'd be especially impressed if you can get it to also analyse the context in which the semaphore is used and determine whether or not it should be a counting semaphore, a mutex or a completion. You can probably do this sort of thing with Perl regexes... they seem to be terrifically[*] powerful. [*] and I mean that in the proper sense:-) David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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