On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:44:17AM +1000, Brian Havard wrote: > Ok, so the cross-process lock is essentially a performance optimization for > when you're running single threaded processes on a multi-threading capable > system that doesn't have an efficient global lock mechanism. > > If that's the case then implementing apr_proc_mutex using a global lock > would be ok on platforms that DO have an efficient native mechanism with > that behaviour. By using apr_proc_mutex you're saying "I don't require > inter-thread locking but don't care if I get it".
Yes, that is it exactly. :) -aaron
