Because of multithreading semantics, this is not reliable.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-05-04, Olaf Meding <OlafMeding at noSpam.compuserve.com> wrote:

>> return result   before that line, some other thread added a value !
>
> Sure, but that is the nature of using threads and a mutex.

Yes.

> I hope you are you not saying that every function that uses a
> mutex should have a comment saying this is not "reliable"?

My point exactly.

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