[Ecls-list] Recursive mutex and condition variable

[Yue Li]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Yue Li <xyly781 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here may I ask whether there are recursive mutex lock and
>> condition variable implemented somewhere in ECL
>
> The appropriate functions are defined in src/c/thread.d and
> src/c/thread_mutex.d You will find that all lock creation functions
> have a :RECURSIVE keyword argument that allows creating recursive
> locks.
>
   Thanks! This is very helpful, and the recursive lock works as tried.

>> And I would
>> appreciate if the documentation on multithreading could be updated
>
> The documentation is indeed out of date, but I am really under
> pressure here. I can not devote more time to ECL than I do now, and
> even that may suffer in the near future.
>
> I am really glad that more people and more projects are using ECL
> right now, but this does not seem to have as a consequence that other
> people stand up as regular contributors or volunteer as maintainers
> and that is dangerous for the project and for my own sanity.
>
> If you find it useful, then please consider updating the docs yourself
> starting from the latest version in
>   http://ecls.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ecls/ecl-doc
>
   Ok, I will try to help as much as I can on the documentation of MP package.

Yue