Subj : Re: recursive mutexes
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Fri May 20 2005 11:55 am


"David Holmes" <dholmes@--remove-this-part-dltech.com.au> wrote in message 
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> "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> wrote in message
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>>     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?

    As I said, assuming it's the last unlock.

    DS

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