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 More options Jul 15 2004, 8:21 pm
Newsgroups: comp.programming.threads, comp.unix.programmer
From: "SenderX" <x...@xxx.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:21:05 GMT
Local: Thurs, Jul 15 2004 8:21 pm
Subject: Re: recursive mutexes

>     It's just too hard and dangerous to write sensible code that works
with
> a mutex that might or might not start out with that mutex locked and with
no
> way to tell which. And the only value of recursive mutexes is that they
let
> you do this.

There good for hashed locks.

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