Re: [help-serveez] Thread safety

[Raimund 'Raimi' Jacob]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, stefan wrote:

morning friends!

> I agree doing that:
>   * introduce a --enable-threads 'configure' argument, which (for a first
>     step) looks for a -lpthread library

i forgot a 'not' in my last email. what i mean was to definitly NOT call
that option --enable-threads but rather
--enable-some-threadsafe-functions. since serveez is not thread safe.

>   * if enabled *and* found we can use the mutices in th pthread
>     implementation

yes.

>   * these pthread funtions go into wrapper like svz_mutex_*()

why ? see my last arguments.

>   * the svz_mutex_() functions will be empty if there is no pthread found
>     *or* disabled

too much work for too little benefit. what if the n+1st function needs to
become thread-safe and a mutex is not good enough. if you lazily implement
wrappers for all the pthreads you end up with a big wrapping API.

stefan: i think your only point is to not depend on a 3rd party lib for
windows. i am not sure if that is enough :-)

Bye,
    Raimi

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