Is having a reentrant readwrite lock an anitpattern in a reactive stack? Does it make sense to wrap ...

# coroutines

[Robert]

Is having a reentrant readwrite lock an anitpattern in a reactive stack?
Does it make sense to wrap it into a coroutines?

[altavir]

There is no reentrant lock in coroutines right now. You should probably follow semaphore development.

[Robert]

I mean I’ve a component that contains a read/write lock and get’s called by a suspended function

[altavir]

Java reentrant lock is blocking. If you are using blocking io, you can use it, but you won't get benifits from coroutines. You should remember to use <http://Dispatchers.IO|Dispatchers.IO> though not to block the pool. If you are using NIO, you should try to rewrite your code to avoid the lock entirely, or use coroutines Mutex.

[Robert]

Good input, will look into that