LOR

Roman Kurakin rik at cronyx.ru
Mon Aug 16 14:44:16 PDT 2004


John Baldwin:

>On Monday 16 August 2004 08:19 am, Roman Kurakin wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>    Question to gurus. Does witness keep in mind lock recursion when
>>it checks for LORs.
>>    
>>
>
>Well, I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you are asking, but witness 
>
My question was silly cause it is based on very silly ideas.

>only does lock order checks when you first acquire the lock.  Any recursive 
>locks will skip the order checking altogether since recursive acquires can 
>never block.  Similarly, trylock operations also stick order checks 
>
You've answered just that I want to know. Thanks!

>altogether since they can never block either.
>
rik






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