Re: glib2 non-static recursive and rw locks?

[Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi ira uka de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 00:18, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Alex Graveley <alex ximian com> writes:
> > 
> > Why are non-static recursive and read-write locks missing from Glib2?!
> > 
> 
> I always wondered why we have static vs. dynamic, since you can
> use any static mutex dynamically as well.
> 
>   mutex = g_new (GStaticRecMutex, 1);
>   g_static_mutex_init (mutex);
> 
> So it would have made more sense to me to just call it GRecMutex and 
> had g_rec_mutex_new() as a convenience function that did the above.

Yes, right. In hindsight it was wrong to not make GMutex, what GRecMutex
is now. The reason was to be more consistent with the rest of GLib (have
a _new function returning a reference to the allocated and created
object and not an _init function initialzing an already allocated
object) and because libnspr did it the same way. 

But since the current setup with both GMutex and GRecMutex is already
released with GLib 1.2, there is no chance fixing it. The
GRecStaticMutex was named so simply because of consistency with
GStaticMutex. I do not think, a GRecMutex will be added. As Havoc
pointed out, this is not necessary.

Bye,
Sebastian
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