From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 20:26:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 27/36] attr: convert to new threadsafe API
Message-ID: <20161026202652.kz63mxqqjan7swvl@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <e1f760f5-27a7-8266-5d6c-d61fab7e194d@kdbg.org>

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:25:38PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Am 26.10.2016 um 21:51 schrieb Stefan Beller:
> > it is
> > very convenient to not have to explicitly initialize mutexes?
> 
> Not to initialize a mutex is still wrong for pthreads.

I think Stefan was being loose with his wording. There would still be an
initializer, but it would be a constant (and in the case of pthread
emulation on Windows, would just be NULL).

-Peff