Re: [Threads-devel] Mutexes

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-03 03:40:47

>> What is a shared mutex?
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>
> Better known as a read/write mutex.
The generalization of this concept I know as "Group Locks".
I would like to see this as a policy that can be applied to the
mutex. Simple mutex and reader/writer then would be just
special cases.

Roland