Subj : Re: recursive mutexes
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Holmes
Date : Fri May 20 2005 04:17 pm

"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> wrote in message
news:d6jrnq$mue$1@nntp.webmaster.com...
>     I'm afraid that's not true. A typical recursive unlock will need one
> interlocked operation to figure out whether it has to wake other threads
or
> not followed by waking the threads if necessary.

Why would a *recursive* unlock need to wake anyone?

David Holmes

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