Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:45:32 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mutexes and semaphores Message-ID: <31094.969821132@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:33:23 PDT." <200009241833.LAA00463@vashon.polstra.com>
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In message <200009241833.LAA00463@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: >I disagree that recursive mutexes are bad, and I don't think "sloppy >coding" is the right way to look at them. I would argue that >recursive mutexes allow robust code to be written based solely on >knowledge of the immediately surrounding code, and that is a Good >Thing. <AOL> -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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