On Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 17:46:11 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
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Such an object is known to be lockable, and most object will
not be. It will avoid liquid lock, because most thing will
not be lockable.
I'm celebrating day 2 of having no idea what a liquid lock is.
I have to confess to this as well. I'm starting to suspect
that he really means deadlock. Searching on Google for "liquid
lock mutex" literally brings up this very NG thread. :)
Maybe it's livelock?
P.S. Just trying to snatched the prize in this little
guess-game :)
FWIW, I recently came across the term here:
http://schneide.wordpress.com/tag/liquid-lock/
