On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, [utf-8] Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
dd_lock cannot be declared as struct pthread_mutex *, since pthread_mutex
is not permitted in the application namespace of dirent.h. dirent.h
is (was) careful about namespaces. E.g., it keeps out of the application
namespace for its own struct _dirdesc. This doesn't work for pthread_mutex
since that is misdesigned. (I think pthread_mutex_t is supposed to
hide the implementation and reduce namespace problems, but struct
pthread was only declared in <pthread.h> where it is permitted in the
namespace, so <pthread.h> doesn't bother naming it struct _pthread_mutex.
Other headers can't define it with a different name (tag) because different
tags give different structs.)
Since struct pthread_mutex is not part of the API, how about simply
renaming it to struct _pthread_mutex to circumvent the namespace issues?
Seems right in theory.
Bruce
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