Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Asterisk has always required and used recursive (reentrant is not the > right word) mutex locks (and now rwlocks, in trunk). All the code in > Asterisk that uses locks depends on this behavior and would break badly > if the mutexes were not recursive. This is documented in a comment very > early in include/asterisk/lock.h, so I'm not sure why you came to the > conclusion that non-recursive mutexes were in use.
Just as a related comment, the rwlocks aren't recursive, because they don't support it. But *all* mutexes in Asterisk are defined as recursive, as you stated. -- Russell Bryant Software Engineer Digium, Inc. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-dev mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
