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On 2002-03-05, Vincent Penquerc'h <Vincent.Penquerch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Do you supply an API for creating threads ?
Timer (and other) callbacks :-)
> What is recursive locking, and its main differences with, hmm...
> non recursive locking I suppose :) ?
Recursive mutexi can be locked by a single thread multiple times (and
then have to be unlocked that many times). Non-recursive mutexi will
deadlock the calling thread if you try that, but they are faster.