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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, git@vger.kernel.org,
	simon@ruderich.org, peff@peff.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: Allow static initializer for pthreads on Windows
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 23:02:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlgxa8h3a.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93be5d21-6cb6-ee2b-9f4f-c2fe7c690d6c@kdbg.org> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:49:27 +0200")

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> Am 26.10.2016 um 23:57 schrieb Stefan Beller:
>> In Windows it is not possible to have a static initialized mutex as of
>> now, but that seems to be painful for the upcoming refactoring of the
>> attribute subsystem, as we have no good place to put the initialization
>> of the attr global lock.
>
> Please rewrite the attribute system such that it can have a dynamic
> initialization. If you find a global initialization in main() too
> gross (I would agree) then setup_git_directory() might be the right
> place.

As many codepaths may not even need access to the attributes, I
doubt that would be a very productive direction to go.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-27  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-26 21:57 [PATCH] compat: Allow static initializer for pthreads on Windows Stefan Beller
2016-10-26 22:14 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-27  5:49 ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-27  6:02   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-10-27  6:10     ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-27  6:21       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27  6:29         ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-27  6:33         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27 17:01           ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-27 17:11             ` Jeff King
2016-10-27 18:22             ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-27 18:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27 19:08                 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-27 20:05                   ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-27 21:49                     ` Jacob Keller
2016-10-27 21:59                       ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-28  5:55                       ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-28  6:11                         ` Jacob Keller
2016-10-28 13:01                         ` Philip Oakley
2016-10-28 18:49                           ` Jacob Keller
2016-10-28 11:58                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-28 18:48                         ` Jacob Keller
2016-10-28 20:26                           ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-28 20:29                             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-28 20:36                               ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-28 20:38                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-28 20:49                               ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-28 20:52                                 ` Junio C Hamano

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