From: Phil Endecott
Howard Hinnant wrote:
The Posix committee has considerable experience and expertise in this area. While I do not trust their advice blindly, I also do not dismiss it lightly (quite the contrary). Transferring mutex ownership among threads is not one of the decisions they have made that I've questioned.
You are not the only one to have argued in this thread that the status-quo has been arrived at as a result of much deliberation by experts whose conclusions we should trust.
I don't think that's a fair characterization of Howard's argument. "As a result of much deliberation by experts whose conclusions we have to treat seriously even if we eventually discard them" seems much closer to me.
While I don't exactly disagree with that attitude, I suggest that the level of deference might perhaps be dropped back one notch.
I do not trust their advice blindly and If you have strong motivation for relaxing this restriction, coupled with some insight into the posix decision and why it should be relaxed, I am most interested. seems to be pretty much the requested drop back one notch.
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