Re: APR feature idea: named global mutex retrieval

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Greg Hudson wrote:

> My idea is to provide an APR interface like:
>
> apr_status_t apr_thread_mutex_get_named(apr_thread_mutex_t **mutex,
> const char *name);
>
> which would create or fetch from a global hash table a mutex by name.
> APR can use a mutex (presumably one created by apr_initialize) to
> serialize access to the hash table.
>
This idea is so simple and ellegant! My only concern is about contention
if that function is used much (say every function in a library has to use
it to ensure it was initialized). That might be over-paranoid, however.

I think it is a good idea.

Regards,
//Peter

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Received on Fri Apr 15 21:40:30 2005