12 Jul
2004
12 Jul
'04
4:47 p.m.
On Jul 10, 2004, at 10:38 PM, Matt Hurd wrote:
I believe the upgradable_read_lock is still a viable solution for a very special situation, but it requires suitable documentation to guide the programmer in how not to abuse it.
OK. I buy that, but perhaps as a separate mutex beyound the standared shareable (rw). I suspect some platforms will support rw_mutex like behaviour natively without the upradeable part.
<nod> Perhaps so. -Howard