Subj : Re: recursive mutexes
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Mon May 16 2005 01:00 pm


"Uenal Mutlu" <520001085531-0001@t-online.de> wrote in message 
news:d6979h$15a$02$1@news.t-online.com...

> 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?

    DS

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