[Bordeaux-threads-devel] Deprecating recursive locks

[Vladimir Sedach]

I think it is a very good idea.

When are you planning the 1.0 release? It would be nice to go through
all the systems dependent on bordeaux-threads in Quicklisp and notify
the maintainers of any that use recursive locks to fix their code.

Vladimir

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Stelian Ionescu <sionescu at cddr.org> wrote:
> They're an ugly hack, as described their inventor David Butenhof
> (http://tinyurl.com/butenhof-recursive-mutexes) and aren't supported by
> all lisps: Allegro, Clozure, CMUCL, SBCL(it has a kind of recursive
> lock, but it's not a posix recursive lock), so I was thinking of making
> a 1.0 release in which to remove them altogether.
>
> What do you think ?
>
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