changes to thread locking layer

[Archie Cobbs]

Patrick Tullmann writes:
> I've got a large (45K) patch to Kaffe's locking layers.  This patch
> cleans up the separation between the vm-internal locking and the
> thread-specific layer locking.  It makes the 'sem2posixLock' hack a
> first class abstraction (a ksem).  The threading interface's
> requirements for locking are documented and, I think, quite a bit
> simpler.  (I sent out an updated FAQ describing these changes a couple
> of weeks ago).
> 
> Since the patch is so large, I didn't include it in this message.  You 
> can fetch it from:
> 	http://www.cs.utah.edu/~tullmann/ksem-diff.txt,

Patrick-
FYI, these changes are now checked in. Thanks!

-Archie

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