[PATCH] added locks in pthread code

Robert Collins robert.collins@syncretize.net
Mon Jun 10 01:40:00 GMT 2002



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Pfaff [mailto:tpfaff@gmx.net] 
> Sent: Monday, 10 June 2002 4:48 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] added locks in pthread code
> 
> 
> 
> I wanted to make sure that a thread can not be cancelled 
> asynchronous when
> it is in the cleanup push call, but i think it could be done 
> better with
> InterlockedExchangePointer.

Yes. Look at the destructor code, or the pthread_atfork list code -
there is a thread safe list based around InterlockedExchangePointer.

Rob



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