Re: Are PR_Locks thread re-entrant?

Rich Megginson <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:24:51 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.nspr
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Wan-Teh Chang wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Rich Megginson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That is, can you lock a mutex more than once in the same thread?  We
>> have a case where a function acquires a PR_Lock mutex and is called
>> recursively.
> 
> No, you can't lock a PRLock more than once in the same thread.
> That's a programming error.

Any suggestions?  I need to allow re-entrant code in the same thread but 
lock out other threads.

> 
> Wan-Teh