From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 20:40:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 27/36] attr: convert to new threadsafe API
Message-ID: <6f231a78-5d74-b93f-a644-a4700c9dfbe7@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20161026202652.kz63mxqqjan7swvl@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 26.10.2016 um 22:26 schrieb Jeff King:
> 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).

And I was loose, too: Not to initialize a mutex with at least 
PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITILIZER (if not pthread_mutex_init) is still wrong.

-- Hannes