Re: Recursive mutexes?

[Marius Vollmer]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> >> Well you certainly could use a condition variable instead of a mutex
> >> here, but I would suspect that in cases where you just want to wake
> >> someone else up, a mutex others can unlock would be lighter weight.
> >> With a condition variable you have to have both a mutex and the
> >> condition variable.
> >
> > And for a good reason, no?
> 
> Not sure I follow.

I meant: there is a good reason that waiting on a condition variable
requires you to have a locked mutex that is the atomically unlocked.
Without this, I guess you will have a hard time avoiding race
conditions.  Using mutexes in a strange way to simulate this is
probably wrong.

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