Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2010, #03; Wed, 07)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 8, 2010, 06:33 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwrwi78t7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BBD7228.8080403@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

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> Am 4/8/2010 2:48, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> * np/malloc-threading (2010-04-07) 2 commits
>>  - Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safe (addendum)
>>  - Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safe
>> 
>> Updated with Freku's "init_recursive_mutex()".  The fix should eventually
>> go to 'maint' and 'master'.
>
> The addendum does not compile on Windows. I'm working on a replacement.

Thanks.

> BTW, are there Unices that do not have a recursive mutex?

PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE is not marked as optional in any way, so I would imagine an implementation that lacks it would say NO_PTHREADS in the Makefile.

Cf.

  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/pthread.h.html