> lead to chaos with preemptive threads. 
> Removing all trace of LWP from Coda would involve finding all the critical
> sections and protecting them with mutexes, which would be very

Oh... Very scary. Now I see what this is not a trivial project.

Where would one start with such an endeavor, without disrupting
the continuity of new feature development and bugfixes elsewhere
in the Coda project?

-- Jim


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