From: Michael Witrant <mike@...>
Date: 2001-11-07T08:51:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24479] Re: Is Mutex Reentrant?

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 06:47:33 +0900, "Hal E. Fulton"
<hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> From: Jason Voegele <jason@jvoegele.com>
> [snip]
> > I would have thought that mutexes would be reentrant, meaning that a
> > thread could call synchronize multiple times and not interfere with
> > itself.  So, my question is, are mutexes reentrant?  If so, what
have
> > I done wrong?
>
> I think that Mutexes are in fact not reentrant. You might want to 
> look at the monitor.rb library for an alternative (unless you can just
> refactor to avoid the reentrant code). 

You can also use the RMutexes availiable there:
http://www.lepton.fr/ruby/rmutex/

Mike.