From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concurrency Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:25:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49707.130.55.132.67.1269807922.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: <27349166.post@talk.nabble.com> <27560255.post@talk.nabble.com> <4B754E74.8060705@swipnet.se> <27563610.post@talk.nabble.com> <4B7564C7.1010309@swipnet.se> <27564728.post@talk.nabble.com> <4B756FB7.3050202@swipnet.se> <87k4ui4gik.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <27566385.post@talk.nabble.com> <87wryi2sjd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <27585994.post@talk.nabble.com> <87k4ucdmwh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87d3zweq4e.fsf@master.homenet> <87y6hg1h4a.fsf@thor.thematica.it> <87tys3j9fa.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87eij6tqmu.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269807943 3823 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2010 20:25:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:25:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stefan Monnier" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 22:25:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvz39-00083E-4J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:25:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49078 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nvz38-0004vI-7O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:25:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nvz32-0004vC-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55677 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nvz30-0004ua-1v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvz2y-0006pP-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:25:25 -0400 Original-Received: from proofpoint1.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.25]:33273) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvz2y-0006pL-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:25:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by proofpoint1.lanl.gov (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o2SKPMaq021333; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:25:22 -0600 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADF72478B6; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:25:22 -0600 (MDT) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay1.lanl.gov Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id A733724708F; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:25:22 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by webmail1.lanl.gov (Postfix, from userid 48) id A53C11CA812C; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:25:22 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from 130.55.132.67 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:25:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.7.lanl7 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5, 1.2.40, 4.0.166 definitions=2010-03-28_04:2010-02-06, 2010-03-28, 2010-03-27 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122815 Archived-At: >> (mutex-lock MUTEX) >> Acquire a mutex. If already held by this thread, returns. > > I.e. it's a "recursive/reentrant mutex". Hmm -- is it fully recursive, where you must unlock it as many times as you locked it? (I don't much care for the semi-recursive kind where one unlock is sufficient regardless of the number of lock operations...) Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.