Re: [ANNOUNCE]: LuaThreads 1.0-work, pre-release

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi Aaron,

> Could the mutex:lock() return an "Already locked by me"?  Then the user
> would need to remember not to unlock it.

There is a third popular kind of mutex that does exactly this. They are
called error-checking mutexes. Unfortunately, they are just as unportable
as the recursive mutexes... :-)

I will probably implement recursive mutexes for LuaThreads. There will be
warnings not to abuse them when used with condition variables.

Regards,
Diego.