[asterisk-dev] Proper use of locking.

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 19 July 2007 16:42, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> I've already said this twice, I don't know how I can say it again and
> get the point across. Asterisk has *always* used recursive
> (reentrant) mutexes since I have been working with it, and probably
> long before that, possibly since it was first turned into a threaded
> application.

It was originally coded with non-recursive mutexes, and we had to jump
through a number of hoops to get around the non-reentrancy of the
mutexes.  However, as Kevin has stated repeatedly in this thread, that
change happened YEARS ago.  All mutexes in Asterisk are currently
recursive.

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Tilghman