Hi everyone, A few days ago I've learned that the Linux version of oc_mutex_lock is currently deadlocking if the current thread already owns the same lock.
Some of the problems related to that behavior: 1. The Windows version of oc_mutex supports recursive-acquire. Having consistent lock behavior across all platforms supported by IoTivity allows us to leverage each other's testing in a more consistent way. 2. Disabling oc_mutex recursivity on Windows would entail designing an IoTivity-specific lock - because the locks provided by the OS support recursion. 3. We've encountered these self-deadlocks for IOT-1861 and IOT-1488. So, I propose enabling the PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE attribute for the Posix implementation of oc_mutex. Is everyone OK with this plan? I uploaded this code change in https://gerrit.iotivity.org/gerrit/#/c/17507/. Thanks, Dan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.iotivity.org/pipermail/iotivity-dev/attachments/20170227/f5b2c6ba/attachment.html>
