Re: [TCLCORE] About the notifier thread

[Alexandre F. <ale...@gm...>]

Hi Zoran and Donal,

I have followed Zoran's advice and read thoroughly that heated
discussion about simply overwriting mutexes with
PTHREAD_STATIC_INITIALIZER, in January 2005. (it was not easy to
follow, message threading being half-broken in the archive, not to
mention the reversed arrow of time: "Previous" points to later
messages...).

I am now well aware of the details of this discussion, and follow
Donal in his "yielding" to the view that pt_atfork is needed in order
to "mass-lock" the mutexes in order to get a consistent data state, as
explained on January 20th 2005:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/tcl-core/2394702

Now, what I don't get is why is this method confined to the OSX port
and not generalized to other unices ?

-Alex