public Method

Mutex.lock

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Attempts to grab the lock and waits if it isn’t available.

Source Code

# File thread.rb, line 92
def lock
  while (Thread.critical = true; @locked)
    @waiting.push Thread.current
    Thread.stop
  end
  @locked = true
  Thread.critical = false
  self
end
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