Double lock on wxMutex(wxMUTEX_DEFAULT) allowed?

Tue Oct 2 05:12:56 PDT 2007

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:11:16 +0200 (CEST) koen at vermeer.tv wrote:

> > KV> Then, the next question is obviously how to work around this.
> >  If you mean how to work around Win32 mutexes always being recursive, then
> > I don't know.
> 
> The documentation suggests using wxSemaphore with maxcount = 1. I guess
> that would be too easy...

 The semaphores don't have exactly the same semantics as mutexes, notably
you can release a semaphore from a thread which doesn't own it. This may or
may not matter, but they are not exactly the same.

 Regards,
VZ

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