Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux

Posted Feb 18, 2024 19:57 UTC (Sun) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)
In reply to: Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux by tialaramex
Parent article: Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux

> with what they have to do if you only have POSIX threads: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/library/std...
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> [...] I'd have thrown all of my toys out of the pram before writing the latter monster [...]

I'm not seeing anything criminal there. Certainly not a monster. WDYM?

Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux

Posted Feb 19, 2024 10:31 UTC (Mon) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

For example when we want to lock the mutex, that can't fail in POSIX, it will just deadlock if we're recursively locking our own mutex, which in Rust's model is fine... too bad Sun didn't agree and so it fails instead.

_ = libc::pthread_mutex_lock(raw(self)); // Should be fine, but instead there's a whole mess