From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 05:49:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: Allow static initializer for pthreads on Windows
Message-ID: <93be5d21-6cb6-ee2b-9f4f-c2fe7c690d6c@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20161026215732.16411-1-sbeller@google.com>

Am 26.10.2016 um 23:57 schrieb Stefan Beller:
> In Windows it is not possible to have a static initialized mutex as of
> now, but that seems to be painful for the upcoming refactoring of the
> attribute subsystem, as we have no good place to put the initialization
> of the attr global lock.

Please rewrite the attribute system such that it can have a dynamic 
initialization. If you find a global initialization in main() too gross 
(I would agree) then setup_git_directory() might be the right place.

-- Hannes