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Looks like the author missed my main complaint about Rust mutexes, which is that the
lock
method returns aResult
. There should be atry_unlock
method for when someone actually wants to handle the rather obscure failure case, and the namelock
should be used for a method that panics on failure but returns a value that doesn't need to be unwrapped first. I see the current arrangement as being about as sensible as having array subscripting return aResult
to handle the case of a failed bounds check.Just use the Mutex from the parking_lot crate.