On Saturday, 6 June 2026 11:03:15 Pacific Daylight Time Frederick Virchanza
Gotham via Std-Proposals wrote:
> The pull request went through code review, and a colleague of mine
> responded to say:
>
> "You've marked that function 'noexcept' but 'mutex::lock' might throw"
>
> My response to him was:
>
> "If a mutex fails to lock, the entire process is fried"

The other reason is that you've made a mistake in your code and this is a bug.
A checking mutex can fail if a deadlock would occur (already locked by this
thread).

But either way, the process can't continue.

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