> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Young [mailto:mysqlpp@stripped]
>
> I think we don't want the example to succeed. It's
> intentionally demonstrating a programming bug, so it should fail.
Point taken.
> If we get rid of the loop and maybe add another pause point,
> is the only difference the order of lock acquisition? If so,
> you could just add an option to examples/cmdline.cpp to
> switch between the modes. It could be just a generic "mode
> switch" (-m?) taking an integer that means something only to
> some programs. To examples/deadlock, -m1 says to acquire
> lock1 first, and -m2 lock2. All other programs can ignore it
> for now. The value can go in a global variable, like dtest_mode.
That'll work. Want me to update the samples and resend them?
