Re: Concurrency

[Daniel Colascione]

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On 3/28/10 4:25 PM, Davis Herring wrote:
>>> (mutex-lock MUTEX)
>>>   Acquire a mutex.  If already held by this thread, returns.
>>
>> I.e. it's a "recursive/reentrant mutex".
> 
> Hmm -- is it fully recursive, where you must unlock it as many times as
> you locked it?  (I don't much care for the semi-recursive kind where one
> unlock is sufficient regardless of the number of lock operations...)
> 
> Davis
> 

It really shouldn't be recursive at all:

http://www.zaval.org/resources/library/butenhof1.html
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