On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:15:58PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> That's great. What if the process holding the mutex dies while there're
> sleeping tasks waiting for it ?
The lock is lost. The same thing would happen with locks completely
implemented in userspace.
I don't see that the kernel should do anything about this. If a
thread is killed with predudice (i.e. without pthread_cancel) then
there are all sorts of cleanups that won't happen. Having the
kernel automatically unlock the locks doesn't help much, since
the data structures are quite likely in an inconsistent state.
r~
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