Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The above code happens to use pthread_mutex_trylock, but there is no > need for that.
pthread_mutex_trylock is special, because POSIX says it is a memory synchronisation point (see section 4.10 Memory Synchronization). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."