Changing threading semantics from init early to init before second thread

[Alexander Larsson]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 10:27 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 18:33 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > > But on the other hand it's (to the best of my knowledge) robust,
> > > tested, existing code.
> > > 
> > > OK, if the threading needs of dbus are *really* trivial (just starting
> > > a thread?), maybe it's overkill, and just using the Microsoft C
> > > library's _beginthreadex() is enough.
> > > 
> > 
> > Doesn't even start threads - all we need is locks and cond variables.
> 
> As a matter of fact, all the internal API is in dbus already, in the
> dbus-threads-internal.h header. All we need is a pthreads and a win32
> implementation of those calls. Shouldn't be a lot of work.

Here is an implementation i hacked up based lightly on the win32 glib
thread implementation. Its lightly tested, just passed make check on
unix/win32.

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