On 05.04.2017 12:19, Yann Ylavic wrote: > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: >>> On Apr 4, 2017, at 4:29 PM, Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I'm not a big fan of the "sleep" fallback implementation. >>> >> Feel free to replace it with something better. > Would an implementation based on a pipe (hence two FDs per mutex) be > acceptable?
The default open-file limit on the Mac is a paltry 256, I'm not sure it'd be a good idea for APR to suddenly start using up file descriptors for timed waits on mutexes. Couldn't we use a condition variable for this? Spinning in sleep() is less than efficient. -- Brane
