diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index da54c9a1..27fdea6d 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -843,3 +843,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Updated 'channels.conf' for the "Bundesliga" channels of Premiere World
   (thanks to Helmut Schächner).
 - Changed the tuning code to use FrontendInfo to detect the type of DVB card.
+- Removed the recursion stuff from cThread (cMutex already does this).
diff --git a/thread.c b/thread.c
index b51489ec..7e5b0ea7 100644
--- a/thread.c
+++ b/thread.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: thread.c 1.15 2001/10/21 12:25:31 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: thread.c 1.16 2001/10/27 13:23:06 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "thread.h"
@@ -99,8 +99,7 @@ cThread::cThread(void)
      signalHandlerInstalled = true;
      }
   running = false;
-  parentPid = threadPid = lockingPid = 0;
-  locked = 0;
+  parentPid = threadPid = 0;
 }
 
 cThread::~cThread()
@@ -159,24 +158,6 @@ void cThread::Cancel(int WaitSeconds)
   pthread_cancel(thread);
 }
 
-bool cThread::Lock(void)
-{
-  if (getpid() != lockingPid || !locked) {
-     Mutex.Lock();
-     lockingPid = getpid();
-     }
-  locked++;
-  return true;
-}
-
-void cThread::Unlock(void)
-{
-  if (!--locked) {
-     lockingPid = 0;
-     Mutex.Unlock();
-     }
-}
-
 void cThread::WakeUp(void)
 {
   kill(parentPid, SIGIO); // makes any waiting 'select()' call return immediately
@@ -228,17 +209,13 @@ bool cThreadLock::Lock(cThread *Thread)
 {
   if (Thread && !thread) {
      thread = Thread;
-     locked = Thread->Lock();
-     return locked;
+     Thread->Lock();
+     locked = true;
+     return true;
      }
   return false;
 }
 
-bool cThreadLock::Locked(void)
-{
-  return locked;
-}
-
 // --- cPipe -----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 // cPipe::Open() and cPipe::Close() are based on code originally received from
diff --git a/thread.h b/thread.h
index 89dcdf85..4547adde 100644
--- a/thread.h
+++ b/thread.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: thread.h 1.10 2001/10/20 10:25:19 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: thread.h 1.11 2001/10/27 13:22:20 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __THREAD_H
@@ -45,9 +45,8 @@ class cThread {
   friend class cThreadLock;
 private:
   pthread_t thread;
-  cMutex Mutex;
-  pid_t parentPid, threadPid, lockingPid;
-  int locked;
+  cMutex mutex;
+  pid_t parentPid, threadPid;
   bool running;
   static time_t lastPanic;
   static int panicLevel;
@@ -55,8 +54,8 @@ private:
   static bool signalHandlerInstalled;
   static void SignalHandler(int signum);
   static void *StartThread(cThread *Thread);
-  bool Lock(void);
-  void Unlock(void);
+  void Lock(void) { mutex.Lock(); }
+  void Unlock(void) { mutex.Unlock(); }
 protected:
   void WakeUp(void);
   virtual void Action(void) = 0;
@@ -84,7 +83,6 @@ public:
   cThreadLock(cThread *Thread = NULL);
   ~cThreadLock();
   bool Lock(cThread *Thread);
-  bool Locked(void);
   };
 
 #define LOCK_THREAD cThreadLock ThreadLock(this)