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From: Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
To: Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Question on Mutexes
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:19:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E7EE9AF.2040806@baretta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030320161331.B23584@pauillac.inria.fr>



Xavier Leroy wrote:

> The system-level implementation of the thread library is a thin
> wrapper around POSIX or Win32 mutexes.  The POSIX spec says that the
> behavior of unlocking by another thread than the one that locked is
> undefined: some implementations can signal an error, others can "do
> the right thing", others can crash.

Of course, Ocaml does the "right thing", doesn't it? ;)

Alex

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-03-24 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-18 13:37 Alessandro Baretta
2003-03-18 18:43 ` David Brown
2003-03-20 15:13 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-03-24 11:19   ` Alessandro Baretta [this message]

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