Re: [Lzip-bug] plzip

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hi Tino,

Tino Lange wrote:
> MINOR: xinit() / xdestroy() cannot be overloaded for pthread_mutex_t* 
> const and and pthread_cond_t* const - this is ambiguos under MINGW as 
> both lead to void ** finally.
> -> Please change to using xinit_mutex(), xinit_cond() and xdestroy_mutex
> (), xdestroy_cond() in your codebase. Then MINGW will compile fine.

This can be done, but:


> MAJOR: there is no pread() / pwrite(). Is it possible to write code that 
> doesn't use those two functions?

Probably not without creating a serialization point in plzip (the file 
position). The point of plzip is parallel performance, so platforms 
where this can't be portably achieved should perhaps limit themselves to 
lzip.

BTW, the plzip binary available here[1] uses pread/pwrite, so I guess it 
does already exist a way of compiling it for Windows.

[1] http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.1-w.zip


Best regards,
Antonio.