Hi Guys, If recursive locks are now available for pthreads + sproc then porting ReentrantMutex across to using them would be better than a hand implementation of this feature.
In the meantime I'll review Michael's changes as a temporary fix. Robert. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Mathias Fröhlich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wednesday 11 March 2009 12:53, Michael Platings wrote: >> N.B. The most robust solution would be to simply not use ReentrantMutex! >> On Windows ReentrantMutex is unnecessary as critical sections already >> allow recursion. On pthreads we need only call >> pthread_mutexattr_settype(&mutex_attr,PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE) when >> initialising a mutex to make it allow recursion. However I don't know >> about sproc. > I was not sure about recursive locks being included in the posix standard. > Looking at opengroup.org, it appears to me that this is now standard. > > I will contribute this time the other way round. > I have recursive posix mutexes available on solaris 8, hpux-11.1, irix 6.5 and > aix-5.3. sprocs - I never tried that appart from compile tests for osg. > Linux has of course ... > > Greetings > > Mathias > > -- > Dr. Mathias Fröhlich, science + computing ag, Software Solutions > Hagellocher Weg 71-75, D-72070 Tuebingen, Germany > Phone: +49 7071 9457-268, Fax: +49 7071 9457-511 > -- > Vorstand/Board of Management: > Dr. Bernd Finkbeiner, Dr. Roland Niemeier, > Dr. Arno Steitz, Dr. Ingrid Zech > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/ > Chairman of the Supervisory Board: > Michel Lepert > Sitz/Registered Office: Tuebingen > Registergericht/Registration Court: Stuttgart > Registernummer/Commercial Register No.: HRB 382196 > > > _______________________________________________ > osg-submissions mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-submissions-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-submissions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-submissions-openscenegraph.org
