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According to Xavier Leroy (OCaml language dev):

> It is possible to use a plain POSIX mutex as master lock, but fairness is awful.

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/is-there-a-known-recent-linux-lo...



Thanks. I've learned more about pthread just from this HN post than I've learned anywhere else online in the past few years. Makes me worried about some of my earlier code now. O_o




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