I join the line of those waiting for this feature in APR. I really would like to have it available
-- Massimo Il 30/Set/2014 18:16 "Yann Ylavic" <ylavic....@gmail.com> ha scritto: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been working on a patch to provide > > apr_[thread/proc]_mutex_timedlock() in APR, but did not finish the > > work mostly because of APR_ENOTIMPL on some mutex mechanisms (mainly > > Windows CRITICAL_SECTIONs which lack the functionality, making the APR > > abstraction quite useless IMO, or at least unix specific). Maybe I'll > > have a new look at it these days if I have the time to. > > Hmm, this remark about Windows only concerns thread-mutexes, > proc-mutexes don't use a CRITICAL_SECTION but a HANDLE (which is then > usable with WaitForSingleObject() that accepts a timeout). > > I think I'll give my patch a new chance, at least for proc-mutexes > (and hence global-mutexes), but this is not a today's solution in any > case since I would be at best an APR-1.6 feature (if accepted)... >
