From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...>
Date: 2009-10-22T09:22:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Mutex confusion

Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 21.10.2009 08:02, Alex Young wrote:
>>
>> What would be broken if, hypothetically, the mutex behaviour were 
>> changed not to block if the current thread already holds the lock? 
>> Would any possible implementation introduce a race condition?
> 
> You want Monitor or MonitorMixin then.  Mutex is just not implemented 
> reentrant (for efficiency reasons I believe), that's all.
> 

I need to find a better source for Ruby multi-threading, did not know about 
monitors. Great I picked up something new today!

> 
> Kind regards
> 
>     robert
> 
> 


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