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Message-ID: <20200331194544.GC2683@voyager>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:45:44 +0200
From: Markus Wichmann <nullplan@....net>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Simple question regarding read-write locks precedence
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 09:02:24PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> So, is there still something you think needs fixing in the page?
>
Yes.
|This is ignored by glibc because the POSIX requirement to support
|recursive writer locks would cause this option to create trivial
|deadlocks;[...]
There is no POSIX requirement to support recursive writer locks. I think
this is meant to say "recursive reader locks".
Ciao,
Markus
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