From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2003-04-07T21:51:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Mutexes end critical sections?

Hi,

From: "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org>
>
> In message "Re: Mutexes end critical sections?"
>     on 03/04/07, "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> |what about the other question?  Are there plans to move over to native
> |threads?  I guess this would be a major change, but maybe someone has this
> |in the works...
> 
> Implementing Mutex, etc. with C?  Perhaps.  Somebody got to take the
> role though.  Shugo Maeda (the mod_ruby/eruby guy) once implemented
> them long before.  Maybe his implementation can be the starting point.

Another place to look might be the boost C++ libraries[1], which
provide a platform-independent wrapping for OS-native threads,
mutexes, critical sections, etc...  

(I realize the Ruby core doesn't use C++, but I just guessed it
might be useful to see whatever approach they took with boost...)

Regards,

Bill

[1] http://www.boost.org/
    http://www.boost.org/libs/thread/doc/index.html