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Subject: POSIX recursive mutex
From: Marty Kraimer <mrk@aps.anl.gov>
To: Jeff Hill <johill@lanl.gov>, "Johnson, Andrew N." <anj@aps.anl.gov>, core-talk@aps.anl.gov
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:26:46 -0600
A problem using pthread_mutex to implement epicsMutex is that pthreads does not provide a pthread_mutex_lock with a timeout. Thus the only way I see to implement epicsMutexLockWithTimeout is to do something like 

timeleft = timeout;
while(timeleft>0.0) {
    if(pthread_mutex_trylock(...)==success) break;
    epicsThreadSleep(shortTime);
    timeleft -= shortTime;
}

I am not bsure this is a good idea. What do you think?

Marty
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