"Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm afraid I don't quite understand. What's wrong with interrupting a thread > holding a lock? Could that make cloning a new thread deadlock?
One problem is that many locks have to be acquired in a specific order to avoid deadlocks, and since you don't know which locks the thread is already holding you can't guarantee the order. The other problem is that you can't guarantee that critical sections are in a valid state since the thread could be interrupted in the middle of a crit section call. -- Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
