Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [PATCHES] Compiling libpq with VisualC - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >
> >What is the recommended way to create mutex objects (CreateMutex) from
> >Win32 libraries?  There must be a clean way like there is in pthreads.
> >
>
> It's having a central one-time called routine executing CreateMutex.
> This can be DllMain, *if* used as DLL, but that's certainly no solution
> for static linkage. This would require some PQinitThreadStuff() routine,
> which may be called only once (and ultimately can't check for that
> itself, if you don't trust a static var).

Ewe.  Well, I am not excited about adding a thread capability for Win32
that isn't 100% guaranteed to work.

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