Merge pull request 'Demonstrate the benefit of a mutex' (#408) from MatthijsBlom/ziglings:matthijsblom-patch-1 into main

Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/ziglings/exercises/pulls/408

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/exercises/091_async7.zig b/exercises/091_async7.zig
index 1b83795..629d276 100644
--- a/exercises/091_async7.zig
+++ b/exercises/091_async7.zig
@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ fn increment(io: std.Io, state: *SharedState, times: u32) void {
         state.mutex.??? catch return;
         defer state.mutex.unlock(); // <-- what's missing here?
 
+        // Sleep to give the other tasks a chance to run in the meantime.
+        // We do this here only to make nondeterminism more visible.
+        io.sleep(std.Io.Duration.fromMilliseconds(1), .awake) catch {};
+
+        // What happens if you neglect to lock the mutex?
+
         state.counter += 1;
     }
 }