Why is there an exclusive lock *count* ???

[John F Carr]

In article <3775 at ttidca.TTI.COM> mb at ttidca.tti.com (Michael Bloom) writes:
>Why bother to do this? Isn't the IEXLOCK flag bit sufficient since there
>can only be one exclusive lock at any one time? 

If a process forks while holding an exclusive lock, the number of locks
increases by one (the lock remains until both parent and child have
released it).

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