X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/a7af285d1ab87e908454bfabbbe063ab1756912b..9bf6a1b80cb856903e15387ebecc926142e73010:/docs/latex/wx/mutex.tex?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/mutex.tex b/docs/latex/wx/mutex.tex index 85b07b7ae8..7f45598005 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/mutex.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/mutex.tex @@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ resource as only one thread at a time can own a mutex object. Mutexes may be recursive in the sense that a thread can lock a mutex which it had already locked before (instead of dead locking the entire process in this situation by starting to wait on a mutex which will never be released while the -thread is waiting) but using them is not recommended and they are {\bf not} -recursive by default. The reason for this is that recursive mutexes are not -supported by all Unix flavours and, worse, they cannot be used with -\helpref{wxCondition}{wxcondition}. +thread is waiting) but using them is not recommended under Unix and they are +{\bf not} recursive there by default. The reason for this is that recursive +mutexes are not supported by all Unix flavours and, worse, they cannot be used +with \helpref{wxCondition}{wxcondition}. On the other hand, Win32 mutexes are +always recursive. For example, when several threads use the data stored in the linked list, modifications to the list should only be allowed to one thread at a time