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On 2/22/2021 11:38 PM, Bonita Montero wrote:
>> My version of "fairness", or being "starvation free", is when readers 
>> cannot starve out writers, and vise versa. Oh well. :^)
> 
> That's impossible to implement.
> Readers or writers can hold the mutex as long as they want.

We just have radically different versions of what it means to be 
starvation free. :^)