Use acquire/release for abstract locks instead of up/down.

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Use acquire/release for abstract locks instead of up/down. #22

Open blitz opened 12 years ago

blitz commented 12 years ago

Currently all locks implement up/down, implying semaphore semantics, when they actually don't have those. up/down should be limited to real semaphores.