At 05:24 PM 3/10/00 -0500, Charles Lane wrote:
>Dan, I *think* the only place changes are needed to accomodate threading
>are where we have "one time initialization" stuff:
>
> static int initted = 0;
> if (!initted) {
> initted = 1;
> ....blah blah blah...
> }
>
>(actually unlikely to cause a problem, but I feel better when there's NO
>possibility of a race condition). Can you point me to relevant code for
>handling this?
It wouldn't be the only race condition. prime_env_iter's threadsafing bit's
actually outright broken...
>Something like:
> static int initted = 0;
> if (!initted) {
> _global_lock_this_bit();
> if (!initted) {
> initted = 1;
> ....blah blah blah...
> }
> _global_unlock_this_bit();
> }
>I can find suitable pthreads calls, but threads in Perl has it's own
>peculiar idiom....
pthread_once is your friend here. Go ahead and use it and things'll be OK.
Dan
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