Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSRecursiveLock — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

This class is an implementation of the NSLocking protocol that provides a lock that may be acquired multiply by a single thread without creating a deadlock condition. See Chapter 2 for more information on how locking works.

@interface NSRecursiveLock : NSObject <NSLocking>

// Instance Methods

- (BOOL)lockBeforeDate:(NSDate *)limit;

- (BOOL)tryLock;

// Methods Implementing NSLocking

- (void)lock;

- (void)unlock;