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Re: Patch for Review: PR/9254 and other Win32 Threading Fixes
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Adam Megacz <gcj at lists dot megacz dot com>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 28 Jan 2003 14:40:28 -0700
- Subject: Re: Patch for Review: PR/9254 and other Win32 Threading Fixes
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- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Megacz <gcj@lists.megacz.com> writes:
Adam> BTW, does it make sense for the platform-independent code to
Adam> implement mutex ownership? Or are there platforms where the OS
Adam> can answer the query "which thread is holding mutex X"?
Originally I thought we could use POSIX mutexes and condition
variables, and the design was influenced by this. It was also
influenced by quickthreads; in our hacked version I just made it work
in a way convenient for java.
These decisions are obsolete, but inertia carries us forward.
Tom