Re: [boost] Re: recursive mutex and condition

From: Vukasin Toroman (vtoroman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-04 09:31:58

Michael van der Westhuizen wrote:
> Vukasin Toroman wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>> to my knowledge, PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP exists on 
>> FreeBSD, OSX and Linux, so one could say that this is a fairly 
>> standard part of posix...
> 
> 
> I'm afraid not, hence the _NP suffix (not portable). This means
> that it's supposed to obvious that it's *not* a part of Posix.
> 
> Michael

I agree, but _NP only means that it cannot be used on ALL 
implementations of the Posix standard, but it is a fact that there are 
quite a few that do support this extension and that it should not be 
ignored so lightly...

Vukasin