cross-thread locking

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

- What happens when a thread locks a mutex and then starts another
  thread?  Does the new thread in any way inherit the lock, or will it
  have to acquire its own?

- What about spin locks?  Are there any semantic differences between
  mutexes and spin locks in POSIX, or are spin locks simply mutexes
  that spin instead of sleeping?

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