Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:25:59 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: initialize a mutex into locked state? |
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 02:23:35PM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > To my surprise I found out that it's not possible to initialise a mutex into > a locked state. > I discussed it with Arjan and apparently there's no fundamental reason > not to allow this.
There is. A mutex _must_ have an owner. If you can initialize it in locked state, you could do so statically, ie. outside of the context of a task.
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