Subj : Re: Recursive lock?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Phil Frisbie, Jr.
Date : Thu May 19 2005 09:50 pm

Michel wrote:

> Anyways I have a question for the developers on the recursive locks is 
> evil camp and the win32 platform. Have you made non recursirve wrappers 
> for the recursive CriticalSection and mutex type?

Yes, I have my own C wrapper for common thread functions wrapped around native 
Windows threads and pthreads for ease of portability. It only supports a 
non-recursive mutex.

I was bit hard with recursive mutexes a few years ago. Code that worked fine on 
Linux and Windows would lock up on Solaris. Until that Solaris report I did not 
know I was calling a mutex recursively, so I modified my mutex code to be more 
strict on error checking and found it! I simply had to refactor two functions to 
fix it.

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Phil Frisbie, Jr.
Hawk Software
http://www.hawksoft.com

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