On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 07:07:06AM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > Please, point out logical problems of cross-release than saying it's > > impossbile according to the paper. > > Isn't that the same? If it's impossible to use lock-graphs for detecting deadlocks > in programs that use mutexes, semaphores and condition variables without triggering > false positives that means that every approach that tries to detect deadlocks and > that is based on lock graphs, including cross-release, must report false positives > for certain programs. Right. That's why I'm currently trying to assign lock classes properly where false positives were reported. You seems to say there is another cause of false positives. If yes, please let me know what it is. If you do with an example, it would be more helpful for me to understand you.