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Recursive Mutexes

2022-05-13 01:18:17.345684+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Recursive mutexes by David Butenhof

And so DCE threads has pthread_lock_global() and pthread_unlock_global(). But if that's all that's necessary, why does POSIX have recursive mutexes?

Because of a dare.

http://groups-beta.google.com/...reads/msg/d835f2f6ef8aed99?hl=en

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