Re: is there a chance for a race condition in pthread_mutex_[un]lock.c?

Ulrich Drepper <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:35:11 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.phil
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:

> Still makes me nervous that this situation can go undetected. 
> Would it be worth to assert that __owner != 0 on unlock() to 
> catch this case?

assert are useful for debugging the thread library itself.  No version
actually used at runtime should have assertions still in place.  So no,
not useful.

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