Re: A few remarks about locking

[Pawel Salek <pawsa TheoChem kth se>]

On 2002.03.26 23:27 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:35:33PM +0100, Pawel Salek wrote:
> >
> > One must be *extremely* careful. nested locks must always acquired
> in
> > same order (see HACKING). Otherwise, it easy to deadlock. Possible
> > scenario: mailbox lock is held by a thread, gdk lock is released.
> The
> > other thread gets GDK lock and waits for mailbox lock. The first
> thread
> > tries to get GDK lock back, and we have a deadlock.
> >
> 
> in this particular:
> 
>  [...] neat scheme
> 
> doesn't seem particularly evil

I guess that would do.

-pawel