[PATCH 5/8] score: Add self-contained mutex implementation

[Sebastian Huber]

----- Gedare Bloom <gedare at gwu.edu> schrieb:
> What, if any, guidance do we need to give to users about these new
> implementations?

We should mention that they are used for the Newlib internal locks.  I would make the available to the users via the C11 thread library:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/thread

Here is a reference implementation which we may use and adjust:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/lib/libstdthreads

Enabling the Newlib internal locks will put some pressure on us to provide better support for nested locks with priority inheritance.

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