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Re: Recursive locks? Locking API?

From: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>
To: Freddie Chopin <freddie_chopin at op dot pl>
Cc: newlib at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:32:38 -0600
Subject: Re: Recursive locks? Locking API?
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On 10/17/2012 07:21 AM, Freddie Chopin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Does newlib REALLY need recursive locks? Couldn't some parts of it be
> rewritten to use normal - binary - locks only?

POSIX requires stdio locking to be recursive.  Maybe some other locks
can be made binary, but not stdio locks.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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