Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:59:14AM -0400, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> > Jeff Trawick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > 1. It looks to me that on Unix APR mutexes are always nesting if
> > > APR_HAS_THREADS and APR mutexes are never nesting (subject to their
> > > underlying implementation of course). This is not cool.
> >
> > I meant to say "It looks to me that on Unix APR mutexes are always nesting
> > if
> > APR_HAS_THREADS and APR mutexes are never nesting (subject to their
> > underlying implementation of course) if !APR_HAS_THREADS."
>
> Can you clarify what you mean by nesting?
>
> Do you mean:
>
> Thread A holds one mutex (say in apr_sendfile)
> Thread A also obtains another mutex later on (say in apr_pool)
no, by "nested mutex" I mean that this is allowed
Thread A holds mutex 1
Thread A obtains mutex 1 again
what I call "nested mutex acquire" is sometimes called "recursive
mutex acquire"
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