[PATCH] score: Unify CORE mutex seize/surrender

[Sebastian Huber]

On 28/09/16 10:47, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 28/09/16 10:38, Pavel Pisa wrote:
>> Hello Sebastian and Gedare,
>>
>> I cannot hold myself to not express my opinion there.
>>
>> On Wednesday 28 of September 2016 07:52:51 Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> On 27/09/16 16:59, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>>> A mostly unrelated question: why do we have two different
>>>> _Semaphore_Get functions, one static in score/src/semaphore.c and the
>>>> other inlined from semimpl.h?
>>> Yes, this is a bit confusing. One is part of the Classic API, the other
>>> is for the self-contained semaphores.
>> what is the reason to name these self-contained semaphores.
>
> the name "self-contained" is used for objects which work with a user 
> supplied storage.  For example:
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=newlib/libc/sys/rtems/include/sys/lock.h;h=c261adf681e542af945969149f6533248eb06fd6;hb=HEAD 
>
>
> In contrast to the Classic and POSIX objects which work with a kernel 
> supplied storage which is accessed via the object identifier.
>
> In the context of the Newlib <sys/lock.h> a "semaphore" is a counting 
> semaphore.

In case the name "self-contained" is confusing for this purpose, then I 
am happy to replace it with a better alternative.

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