obtaining a lock owned by a terminated thread

Taylor R Campbell <[email protected]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:04:13 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.scheme48
Message-ID <[email protected]>
If <lock>'s owner has terminated, then (OBTAIN-LOCK <lock>) blocks
forever.  It would be nice if OBTAIN-LOCK either reported the problem
or quietly obtained the lock.