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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:43:21 +0400
From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To: Andrew Lynch <lynchaj AT yahoo DOT com>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: pthreads in YahooPOPs
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Hi!

Sunday, 13 October, 2002 Andrew Lynch lynchaj AT yahoo DOT com wrote:

AL> Hopefully, the author will see the issue and rewrite
AL> the code in a more portable manner.  Can you deduce
AL> what the YahooPOPs author is trying to do?  Would you
AL> suggest a more portable method I could look at?  I
AL> will likely be finding or writing a replacement for
AL> this code section and appreciate any tips.

>> AL> lock.__m_reserved = 0;
>> AL> lock.__m_count = 0;
>> AL> lock.__m_owner = 0;
>> AL> lock.__m_kind = PTHREAD_MUTEX_TIMED_NP;
>> AL> lock.__m_lock.__status = 0;
>> AL> lock.__m_lock.__spinlock = __LT_SPINLOCK_INIT;

It's hard to be sure from such short snippet, but it looks like they
should use pthread_mutex_init() function if they want to create a new
pthread mutex and initialize it.

Single Unix Specification (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/)
is a standard cygwin is trying to conform to. They have all needed
reference information online.

Additionally, would you please keep the answers on-list? I
deliberately set 'Reply-To:' to point to mailing list, because i read
it along with my personal e-mail, so i don't want to get duplicate
copies of one message.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


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