Re: Concurrency

[Ken Raeburn]

On Mar 29, 2010, at 12:16, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Also, I think mutex-unlock should throw some kind of error if the mutex
>> is owned by a different thread.  What do you think of that?
> 
> That doesn't sound useful.  There are perfectly valid ways to use mutexes
> where the locker and the unlocker are not the same thread.

True... but there are models where it would be a bug, plain and simple.
Maybe it should be an option to mutex-unlock?

Ken