[patch] Add a level of abstraction to condvars and mutexes so
we can initalize them late
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Wed Aug 16 05:29:40 PDT 2006
John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
>> /**
>> + * This does the same thing as _dbus_mutex_new. It however
>> + * gives another level of indirection by allocating a pointer
>> + * to point to the mutex location. This allows the threading
>> + * module to swap out dummy mutexes for real a real mutex so libraries
>> + * can initialize threads even after the D-Bus API has been used.
>> + *
>> + * @returns the location of a new mutex or #NULL on OOM
>> + */
>> +DBusMutex**
>> +_dbus_mutex_new_at_location (void)
>> +{
Oh, I missed this before - what I'd intended was:
dbus_bool_t
_dbus_mutex_new_at_location(DBusMutex **location_p)
{
*location_p = _dbus_mutex_new();
...
}
then the patch would be even smaller...
Havoc
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