On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 08:33, Christophe Galerne wrote: > 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.
Oh, and more specifically, what documentation says that 'cygwin threads using PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL are the same as _PTHREAD_MUTEX_FAST_NP'. I never said that PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL does not block, I was challenging the apparent 'cygwin threads' documentation. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---
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