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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:19:05 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: Lee Shallis <gb2985@...il.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Suggestion for thread safety

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 11:36:06AM +0000, Lee Shallis wrote:
> First I'll start with the code snippets I've copied from my own code:
> [...]
> 
> Take what you will of the above, the Allot function was included just
> to give you an idea of how the locks are made, as for pauseCB that
> should be re-mapped to a variant that calls something like
> pthread_yield(), it's what I tested with, anyways the general idea is
> that the shared lock defaults to NULL when not locked, when you want
> [...]

Is there any context to this? Some problem you're setting out to solve
in relationship to musl? We already have synchronization, using
well-understood standard primitives wherever it's possible and
practical. Are you advocating for doing something different, or just
explaining something you made?

Rich

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