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feb on April 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: C Finally Gets A New Standard

When adding locking without evaluating all locking paths, how can you be sure none of those paths cause a deadlock ?

shin_lao on April 10, 2012 [–]

You cannot self deadlock with a a single recursive mutex.

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