Patch to mutex.c

[Neale.Ferguson@SoftwareAG-USA.com]

Title: RE: Patch to mutex.c





Does this mean the "fix" will be included in the main stream? 


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


> 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.