The Mutex Never Unlocked Because Retry Slept Inside It
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Retry does not belong inside a locked section. That single rule would have saved me an afternoon. An AI-generated C++ helper compiled, passed tests, and then froze a worker thread. This post is a lab reconstruction, not a production war story. The conclusion first A retry loop that catches everythi…
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- 2026-09-06 21:29 · DEV Community — AI
The Mutex Never Unlocked Because Retry Slept Inside It