On 18-May-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> * Kenneth D. Merry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020517 23:31] wrote: >> > The problem here is that the mutex needs to be initialized before I can >> > acquire it, and there's going to be a race between checking to see >> > whether it has been initialized and actually initializing it. >> > >> ... >> > Suggestions? >> >> *slaps forhead* >> >> Probably a SYSINIT? > > God, it's annoying that a statically declared mutex is not > defacto initialized.
Is it in solaris? > Yeah, I understand the "witness" crap (if it's there); that > doesn't make it any less annoying. > > Actually, a linker set (not a SYSINIT) could fix that... you > would still need one sysinit to do the linkage of the statically > declared structures, but it's at least doable. a SYSINIT just is a linker set, and there is a convenience SYSINIT MTX_SYSINIT() or what not that just registers a sysinit to initialize a mutex. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
