They're mutexes, Jim, but not as we know them
They're mutexes, Jim, but not as we know them
Posted May 15, 2013 13:45 UTC (Wed) by mlankhorst (subscriber, #52260)In reply to: They're mutexes, Jim, but not as we know them by dlang
Parent article: Wait/wound mutexes
Correct. The current implementation preserves the sequence number. But it's an implementation detail, the user of the api will never have to work with the sequence numbers directly.
Posted May 15, 2013 20:49 UTC (Wed)
by dlang (guest, #313)
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But this detail is critical to avoiding the risk of permanent starvation of some thread.
They're mutexes, Jim, but not as we know them
It may be "only an implementation detail" in that the user of the API never deals with the sequence number.