I do not know how portable it is, I only program for linux.. However, as far as I understand it it is a datatype that guarantees all actions are atomic and will not be corrupted by multiple threads accessing the same data.
Hope it's some help. Josh. On July 30, 2003 04:06 pm, you wrote: > What's that? Is it portable? > > -aaron > > On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 01:01 PM, Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote: > > I may eb way out of the ball park here but as far as the line > > > > mutex->owner_ref++ > > > > is concerned.. couldn't owner be a sig_atomic_t?
