4.6.1 Basic features

release

Open generic function

Summary

Releases a synchronization object.

Signature

release object #key => ()

Arguments

object: An instance of <synchronization>.

Values

None.

Library

threads

Module

threads

Description

Releases the supplied synchronization object, object, potentially making it available to other threads. Individual methods describe what this means for each class of synchronization. This function does not block for any of the subclasses of <synchronization> provided by the library.