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<h2>Read/write locks are recursive</h2>
<p>The i5/OS implementation of read/write locks provides a recursive behavior
not only for shared read locks (as the thread standard specifies), but for
exclusive write locks as well. The following statements apply to read/write
locks on i5/OS:</p>
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<li>A thread can acquire any number of shared read locks on a read/write lock.
Each successful shared read lock that is acquired must be released by a call to
<strong>pthread_rwlock_unlock()</strong>.</li>
<li>A thread can acquire any number of exclusive write locks on a read/write
lock. Each successful exclusive write lock that is acquired must be released by
a call to <strong>pthread_rwlock_unlock()</strong>.</li>
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