David Guthrie wrote on Thursday, May 07, 2009 1:50 PM: > The Pthreads implementation of the mutex doesn't set it to be a recursive > mutex, so if you try to lock the same mutex on the same thread again, it will > deadlock. The windows critical section, however, allows this. It seems like > it would be best to mark the pthread mutex to allow recursion so that this > case functions the same across platforms. Does anyone know of a reason why > this is NOT a good idea?
OpenThreads implements recursive mutexes in ReentrantMutex, which lets you use them on pthreads *and* Windows. So, it's just a cross-platform compatibility choice. -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International [email protected] _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
