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Add a comment describing some limitiations of this implementation.

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lib/libpthread/pthread_cond.c
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/* $NetBSD: pthread_cond.c,v 1.46 2008/05/26 00:16:35 ad Exp $ */
/* $NetBSD: pthread_cond.c,v 1.47 2008/05/26 02:06:21 ad Exp $ */
/*-
* Copyright (c) 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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* POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
*/
/*
* We assume that there will be no contention on pthread_cond_t::ptc_lock
* because functioning applications must call both the wait and wakeup
* functions while holding the same application provided mutex. The
* spinlock is present only to prevent libpthread causing the application
* to crash or malfunction as a result of corrupted data structures, in
* the event that the application is buggy.
*
* If there is contention on spinlock when real-time threads are in use,
* it could cause a deadlock due to priority inversion: the thread holding
* the spinlock may not get CPU time to make forward progress and release
* the spinlock to a higher priority thread that is waiting for it.
* Contention on the spinlock will only occur with buggy applications,
* so at the time of writing it's not considered a major bug in libpthread.
*/
#include <sys/cdefs.h>
__RCSID("$NetBSD: pthread_cond.c,v 1.46 2008/05/26 00:16:35 ad Exp $");
__RCSID("$NetBSD: pthread_cond.c,v 1.47 2008/05/26 02:06:21 ad Exp $");
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/time.h>