On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been working on a patch to provide > apr_[thread/proc]_mutex_timedlock() in APR, but did not finish the > work mostly because of APR_ENOTIMPL on some mutex mechanisms (mainly > Windows CRITICAL_SECTIONs which lack the functionality, making the APR > abstraction quite useless IMO, or at least unix specific). Maybe I'll > have a new look at it these days if I have the time to.
Hmm, this remark about Windows only concerns thread-mutexes, proc-mutexes don't use a CRITICAL_SECTION but a HANDLE (which is then usable with WaitForSingleObject() that accepts a timeout). I think I'll give my patch a new chance, at least for proc-mutexes (and hence global-mutexes), but this is not a today's solution in any case since I would be at best an APR-1.6 feature (if accepted)...
