Nikita Danilov wrote:
And to convert almost all calls to down/up to mutex_{down,up}. At which
point, it no longer makes sense to share the same data-type for
semaphore and mutex.
If we're going to call it a mutex, it would make sense to use familiar terminology and call it lock/unlock rather than down/up.
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