Re: [simspark-devel] discussion

[Markus R. <rol...@un...>]

Hi,

Yuan Xu wrote:
> Firstly, I create a global mutex that all ruby functions should call 
> before doing anything. But it will cause dead lock, because there are
> recursive calls between Ruby and C++.
[...]

You could use a recursive mutex to avoid this. This kind of mutex allows 
  the owning thread to lock it repeatedly without deadlocking. The boost 
library contains a boost/thread/recursive_mutex.hpp file for this purpose.

regards.
Markus