On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:52:13AM -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote: > If it's alright with you both, I'd rather we first consider again my > suggestion of a separate api for the two. One would handle the simple > case of interprocess (aka crossprocess) locks, treated as a simple > mutex -- since this is already implemented in a cross-platform way. > The other api would be the set of "normal" lock types, the intraprocess > ones like mutex, condition, rwlock, possibly semaphore (the concept, not > the SysV kernel thing), and whatever else comes along. > > What do you think? (I've been pushing this for a week or so)
Under the policy of "less talk, more code" - submit a patch that implements this. =) When we see the patch, we can discuss the relative merits of it. I personally need to see how the API is implemented before rendering a verdict. -- justin
