Re: [PATCH] shm_destroy lock hang

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, David Schwartz wrote:

>
> >Just please avoid doing that locking nastyness:
> >
> >function() {
> >unlock();
> >}
> >
> >
> >lock();
> >if (something)
> >    function();
> >else
> >    unlock();
>
> 	What do you do in cases where 'function' looks like this:
>
> function() {
>  something();
>  unlock();
>  something_else();
> }
>

Move something() outside function().