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- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: LuaThreads 1.0-work, pre-release
- From: Aaron Linnen <linnena@...>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:30:07 -0600
Could the mutex:lock() return an "Already locked by me"? Then the user
would need to remember not to unlock it.
Probably too simple to work in the real world... simple solutions
usually are!
-Aaron
>I will see how hard it is to provide recursive mutexes to LuaThreads
in
>Linux, Solaris, AIX and IRIX. recursive mutexes are not portable as
far
>as I know. If I manage to get them all working, I might add a
parameter
>to newmutex(), to specify the kind of mutex to be created. I don't
like
>the extra complexity, though. Besides, I am not sure if it is easy
to
>create a non-recursive (and reasonably fast) mutex in Win32.
>
>Any sugestions?
