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		wizzwizz4 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems wi... I'm not sure how a spinlock solves this problem. Wouldn't that just cause the process to hang busy?

direwolf20 20 days ago [–]

Only until the other thread leaves the logger

wizzwizz4 20 days ago | [–]

Oh, I see: the spinlock is for logging the deadlocks of other mutices, not for magically remediating deadlocks.

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