Re: Multi-object locks (was Re: RFC 35 / Re: perl6-internals-gc sublist)

[Chaim Frenkel]

>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> the user needs a mechanism to handle multi-object locking, or a clean
>> method to order his lock aquisition.

DS> A language issue. Being able to require multiple locks upon
DS> entering a sub, along with timeouts and retries and such, would be
DS> very nice, and something for the language people. (Which probably
DS> means some of us over there, since I don't know that we have that
DS> much thread experience in the pure perl side of the world)

Are you claiming _no_ -internals? Or are you just defering the problem
till the language issues are resolved or finalized.

<chaim>
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