From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concurrency Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:16:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <27349166.post@talk.nabble.com> <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> <49707.130.55.132.67.1269807922.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87oci8rwtw.fsf@gnu.org> <87aatrigux.fsf@thor.thematica.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269880353 994 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2010 16:32:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , Giuseppe Scrivano , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 29 18:32:26 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 1NwHsz-00079D-4W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:32:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37802 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwHgi-00052R-TN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:19:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NwHel-00043T-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:17:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47756 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwHec-0003XG-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwHe8-0005Si-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:17:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:37003 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwHe8-0005Sd-Dg; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:17:00 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAB5vsEtLd/h9/2dsb2JhbACbJHLAEoUBBIse X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,329,1267419600"; d="scan'208";a="59739556" Original-Received: from 75-119-248-125.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.248.125]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 29 Mar 2010 12:16:59 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C881585F0; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:16:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:37:51 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:122851 Archived-At: > Also, I think mutex-unlock should throw some kind of error if the mutex > is owned by a different thread. What do you think of that? That doesn't sound useful. There are perfectly valid ways to use mutexes where the locker and the unlocker are not the same thread. Stefan