Subj : Re: posix and lock-free algorithms To : comp.programming.threads From : David Hopwood Date : Mon Aug 01 2005 10:37 pm David Schwartz wrote: > Mutexes only protect memory access that occur while the mutex is held. Chapter and verse, please. (Yes, the suggested memory_barrier() does not work. I'm just nitpicking about the reason why it doesn't work, and whether what POSIX actually says allows you to infer the statement above.) -- David Hopwood .