On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 23:06, Chris Knight wrote: > Hello Rob, > > I have changed the code, see below. I now set the type to > PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL but that also does not block. The only documentation > on cygwin threads say this is the same as PTHREAD_MUTEX_FAST_NP
What documentation says that? The PTHREAD_MUTEX_FAST_NP under linux is NP -> NON PORTABLE. In other words, expect it to break on all other platforms. > which I know > blocks under Linux. Linux man pages also say that this is the default mutex > type. > > Do you know the right type for NONRECURSIVE threads. We don't support NONRECURSIVE mutex's. I don't know what you mean by NORECURSIVE threads. If you need a portable way to do single entrancy within a single thread and across threads, you are best to use a semaphore, not a mutex. Cheers, Rob PS I've copied the list, so the solution is in the archives.
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