Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to remove scm_mutex_lock (and all other functions in the > low-level API) and maybe, just maybe, provide instead > > - int scm_p_pthread_mutex_lock (scm_p_pthread_mutex_t *mutex) > Identical to pthread_mutex_lock on systems with pthreads and when > Guile has been configured --with-thtreads; otherwise, does nothing > and always returns 0. > > Would you say that such alias for the pthreads API is useful? > > Guile needs it internally anyway, but when we do not export it, we can > just implement what we need and can change it at will, of course.
Unless there's a strong case, I don't think we should export it. We can always be convinced to export it later, but it's much more difficult to "unexport" something. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
