On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 02:23:35PM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > To my surprise I found out that it's not possible to initialise a mutex into > a locked state. > I discussed it with Arjan and apparently there's no fundamental reason > not to allow this.
There is. A mutex _must_ have an owner. If you can initialize it in locked state, you could do so statically, ie. outside of the context of a task.

