Subj : Re: recursive mutexes
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Uenal Mutlu
Date : Wed May 18 2005 10:16 pm

"David Schwartz" wrote
>
> "Uenal Mutlu" wrote in message
>
> > You seem to not understand what I'm talking about.
> > Do you understand this fact: "Recursive locking is defined for the current
> > lock owning
> > thread only"?
> > Since you already have the lock you can do what ever you want since nobody
> > else can change anything, but you can do! You simply increment it in
> > Lock()
> > and decrement it in Unlock(). Because it is safe because you already have
> > it locked.
>
>     Holy cow! Have you actually seen the way any recursive lock is actually
> implemented?

Sure, I've even researched and stress tested them, developed many variants myself.
Otherwise I wouldn't discuss them. For code see my reply to doug.

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