On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Gary Setter wrote: > However, what if making a mutex fails after main is called? What should > be done? How can the program determine if the failure is legitimate? > ... > Does the unix version of aspell have the same situation? What > should be done when an attempt to lock via a mutex fails? Are > there other ways the code could be improved?
The making of a mutex SHOULD NOT fail. If it does the appropriate action is to abort. Locking a mutex should also always succeed. If some object is already holding the lock than the call to lock the mutex should block until the lock is released. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
