Patch to mutex.c

[Kaz Kylheku]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 Neale.Ferguson@SoftwareAG-USA.com wrote:

> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:14:02 -0400
> From: Neale.Ferguson@SoftwareAG-USA.com
> To: libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Patch to mutex.c
> 
> Further to the behavior of RECURSIVE mutexes. The man file does indicate the
> unpredictable nature of unlocking and non-locked mutex. I noted several
> exchanges on this list on the subject of man pages versus the standard.
> According to the standard:

By golly, you are right! The Single UNIX Specification does, in fact, require
recursive mutexes to have error checking properties. This needs to be fixed.

Thank you for pointing out this omission.