On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote: > > So, I concur in that I don't see how the semantics of shared could possibly > not be appropriate for mutexes. I started this thread primarily because I was > shocked that Mutex, Condition, etc. weren't marked with shared already, and I > didn't see how they could even be used without it (and apparently, the answer > to that is that almost everyone cops out and uses __gshared).
I tried this once and it cascaded to requiring modifications of various definitions on core.sys.posix to add a "shared" qualifier, and since I wasn't ready to do that I rolled back the changes. I guess the alternative would be to have a shared equivalent for every operation that basically just casts away shared and then calls the non-shared function, but that's such a terrible design I've been resisting it.
