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On 2002-03-04, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Ho ! I thought Pthreads didn't natively support recursive locking, so
> Allegro would have to emulate it on top of them. If they do support it, then
> I agree with you that recursive locking is better. Moreover,
> acquire_bitmap()/release_bitmap() supports this semantics.
Recursive mutexes aren't POSIX. However, they are part of Unix98.
Whether everything supports that is another matter. There are
non-portable ways of getting recursive mutexes, too. I dunno if
recursive mutexi are *really* required, but I don't use threads that
much.