On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:22:56PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Jacques A. Vidrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001005 16:18] wrote:
> > Is it ok to use pthread_rwlock* and other such primitives in code in
> > src/lib/libc (when _THREAD_SAFE is defined, of course)?
>
> It sure looks like it.
>
> cd /usr/src/lib/libc/ ; grep pthread */*
I didn't see all those pthread_mutex*s because I was looking for
pthread_rwlock*s :-)
Which leads me to wonder if I _want_ pthread_rwlock. The overhead might
outweigh the benefits of finer-grained locking. Besides, there doesn't
seem to be a good way of promoting a lock from read->write.
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