On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 14:04:57 +0200
Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
> So why not do:
>
> lock(B);
> if (!trylock(A)) {
> unlock(B);
> lock(A);
> lock(B);
> }
>
> ?
>
> Or, if this can be done, why didn't we do:
>
> lock(A);
> lock(B);
>
> to begin with?
>
> i.e. I'm not sure the problem is properly specified.
Yeah, this is actually the solution I came up with before. I misread
what Thomas wrote. His is slightly different.
-- Steve
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