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Hello! This library looks quite useful, and I'll be trying it out over the next couple days in my project (which is currently suffering from occasional deadlocks).

Currently in my project I am using RwLock locks for my data, as most of the time there are not writes occurring, so allowing multiple read-locks simultaneously is beneficial. Naturally, I was wondering if a RwLock is possible for the approach cooptex is using to handle deadlocks.

If not, that's fine! I will try to rework using CoopMutex as written.

I just figured it was worth asking:

1. Whether a CoopRwLock struct were possible, given cooptex's deadlock resolution design.
2. How much work it would be to create such a struct. (as if it were straightforward enough, I may look into trying to develop the variant myself)

Anyway, thanks for releasing the library, as it gets the thought process going on other possibilities for handling deadlocks. :)

EDIT: For now, I am using this wrapper around RwLock that keeps track of all "living lock-guards", so that at least when a deadlock occurs, it is easy to see the name/location of any lock-guards it is waiting-for/deadlocked-with: https://gist.github.com/Venryx/64f822a9468bb6d76a8f6d63f0c3ae23