Problems with dbus_fake_mutex

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Von: Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>
> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 09:49 +0100, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > During our work on the win32 port, we found a problem with
> > dbus_fake_mutex_foo() - functions. Because they're only fake
> > functions, it is possible that one thread looks something and another
> > thread wants to access the locked variable. Instead waiting for
> > unlock, the thread throws an assert().
> > Now I wonder why you added those fake mutexes. You should get the same
> > problems on linux too (not that often because we use more locks)...
> 
> You can't use the fake mutexes with actual threads. If you use threads
> you *have* to initialize dbus with thread support.
> 
> The fake mutexes are there to use in tests to detect bugs like
> deadlocks.
> 
But wouldn't it be better to use another ifdef than DBUS_BUILD_TESTS to enable the fake mutexes?

Christian
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