From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Caerwyn B Jones Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature" To: Russ Cox , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:13:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: ec9809c8-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > I suppose this is folly. But is it called recursion? > > It's called deadlock unless you're really careful, > which I guess you were. Right. So I'm indirectly calling the same function but always in a different thread.