How and when to use recursive mutex

Hi,

I just read some materiles about the recursive mutex, which will allow
the owner to relock a mutex instead causing deadlock. But I think this
is a not so good thing for programmer, or only good for careful
programmer?

The article details this, but I still can't catch the point:
http://zaval.org/resources/library/butenhof1.html

Thanks.
ABAI

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