From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:49:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safe
Message-ID: <201004072049.08819.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100407144555.GA23911@fredrik-laptop>

On Mittwoch, 7. April 2010, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote:
> As I mentioned in another mail in this thread, our mutex
> implementation on WIN32 already is recursive. It is implemented on top
> of the CRITICAL_SECTION type, which is recursive. See
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682530%28VS.85%29.aspx

Very true!

> +	if (pthread_mutexattr_settype(&a, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE))

I wonder how many pthreads implementations there are that do not support 
recursive mutexes...

-- Hannes