Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 23:06, Chris Knight wrote: > > Hello Rob, > > > > I have changed the code, see below. I now set the type to > > PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL but that also does not block. The only documentation > > on cygwin threads say this is the same as PTHREAD_MUTEX_FAST_NP > > What documentation says that?
This www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/pthread_mutexattr_settype.html seems to explain that a PT_MUTEX_NORMAL mutex should behave the way Chris expect. If this doc is out-of-date, could you give a pointer to a more accurate source? > We don't support NONRECURSIVE mutex's. I don't know what you mean by > NORECURSIVE threads. Then maybe one should add a comment above pthread.h(55): #define PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL 2 that this option is not supported. Also above pthread.h(57): #define PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER (void *)20 a comment that says that a default MUTEX will be recursive might avoid some surprise. =:-D Thanks, Christophe PS: Could you cc me as I am not on the list? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
