On Mar 13, 2007, at 9:17 AM, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:

> cas is "compare and swap" from Solaris Internals, second edition, page
> 820.

Yes, I know that's what Solaris means by it.  I just don't want to  
return the old value, so the semantics of what I'm proposing really  
are "compare-and-store", even if, underneath, compare-and-swap is what  
the CPU has.

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