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Title:	CON05-C. Do not perform operations that can block while holding a lock
Author:	Joe Black	Oct 25, 2010
Last Changed by:	Francesco Mariani	Jul 02, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/bdUxBQ
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SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java (1)     Page: LCK09-J. Do not perform operations that can block while holding a lock

SEI CERT C Coding Standard (1)     Page: POS52-C. Do not perform operations that can block while holding a POSIX lock

Parent Page     Page: Rec. 14. Concurrency (CON)

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    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrec.con05…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/java/SEI+CERT+O…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html662.html
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/How+this+Codi…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/java/LCK09-J.+D…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    cwe.mitre.org/
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html557.html

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