From: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:14:56 GMT
Subject: Re: ***SPAM*** Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2010, #03; Wed, 07)
Message-ID: <m2sd2d39d861004080214sedf4a65fm7e081d468f4d88f2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <o2u4c8ef71004080201pdbdc7aa8j99500d7643c278c9@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:01, Fredrik Kuivinen <frekui@gmail.com> wrote:

> For some reason I looked at Issue 6 of the standard (a previous
> version, released in 2004). In that version pthread_mutexattr_settype
> and PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE are optional. See
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/pthread.h.html
>
> However, it is probably best to just ignore the issue for now until
> some platform appears where pthreads is available but not recursive
> mutexes.

IRIX 6.2 has one of those early, primitive implementations. It doesn't
seem to have PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE, even though it has pthread_mutex
functions.  Every other system I have (irix 6.5/solaris/aix) appears
to have PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE.

-Tor