"
 COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 by Claus Gittinger
	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used
 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
 hereby transferred.
"


Object subclass:#RecursionLock
	 instanceVariableNames:'process sema'
	 classVariableNames:''
	 poolDictionaries:''
	 category:'Kernel-Processes'
!

!RecursionLock class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright
"
 COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 by Claus Gittinger
	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used
 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
 hereby transferred.
"

!

documentation
"
    like a Semaphore for mutual exclusion, but avoids the deadlock
    if a critical region is reentered by the same process again.
    I.e. allows reentering the critical region if the current process 
    is the one which did the original locking.

    example:

	|lock|

	lock := RecursionLock new.
	lock critical:[
	    Transcript showCr:'in lock ...'.
	    lock critical:[
		Transcript showCr:'again ...'
	    ]
	]
"

! !

!RecursionLock class methodsFor:'instance creation'!

new
    ^ self basicNew initialize

! !

!RecursionLock methodsFor:'private initialization'!

initialize
    sema := Semaphore forMutualExclusion
! !

!RecursionLock methodsFor:'wait & signal'!

critical:aBlock
    "evaluate aBlock as a critical region, but do not block,
     if this lock is already held by the current process."

    |active|

    active := Processor activeProcess.
    process == active ifTrue:[
	aBlock value
    ] ifFalse:[
	[
	    sema critical:[
		process := active.
		aBlock value
	    ]
	] valueNowOrOnUnwindDo:[
	    process := nil
	]
    ].
! !

!RecursionLock class methodsFor:'documentation'!

version 
    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/RecursionLock.st,v 1.6 1995-12-07 21:30:23 cg Exp $'
! !