On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Daniel Solano Gomez <cloj...@sattvik.com> wrote:
> On Wed Mar  2 15:44 2011, clj123123 wrote:
>> In a multi thread app, is there a way to mark a function to be
>> blocking so it can run not simultaneously but would be blocking for
>> each thread?
>
> You could try the locking macro.  For this you need an object to lock
> on.  I suppose you could lock on the function itself:
>
> (defn my-fn []
>  (locking my-fn
>    (do cool stuff)))

Is there a reason to enforce strict mutual exclusion instead of, say,
using a transaction? Perhaps you're doing I/O? You may want to use
agents instead in that case.

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