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Subject: [Boost-users] Are shared_mutex's recursive?
From: John M. Dlugosz (mpbecey7gu_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-25 03:38:01


Clearly recursive acquiring of a shared (reading) lock is natural.
But what about an exclusive lock? Can the owning thread acquire the write lock
recursively, or even read locks recursively?


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