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Re: checkin of glthread/glcond modules


From: Yoann Vandoorselaere
Subject: Re: checkin of glthread/glcond modules
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:37:15 +0200

Le mercredi 13 août 2008 à 11:59 +0200, Bruno Haible a écrit :
> Hello Yoann,
> 
> > I'm wondering whether there is a problem with the last set of patch I
> > sent you on the mailing list, that may prevent you from checking them
> > in?
> 
> Sorry, I had zero time from Friday to Monday.
> 
> Your patch looks quite good. Thanks for the many updates. (Only the test-lock
> part has useless reformatting.)
> 
> But the major points I'm still hesitating about are:
>   - What about the module for the sched_yield function, which is mandatory
>     for code that runs with GNU Pth? Do you write it, or should I write it?

I can take care of this one, 

>   - 'gl' prefix of the module names? I vote for no, since all modules are
>     gnulib modules, and it's thus redundant.
>   - 'gl' prefix of the header files? You are right that because of
>     Solaris <thread.h> "it make sense to use glcond / gllock to use the same
>     convention everywhere". But I have a bad feeling about such a renaming.
>     Can you see alternatives? Maybe something like <glthread/lock.h>,
>     <glthread/tls.h>, <glthread/thread.h>, <glthread/cond.h>,
>     <glthread/yield.h> ?

Look good to me, can you handle the renaming part so that all the
modules look consistant?

-- 
Yoann Vandoorselaere <address@hidden>





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