[cairo] Static caches and thread-safety

[Stuart Parmenter]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:16:18 -0500, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> 
> Around 14 o'clock on Nov 11, Carl Worth wrote:
> 
> > But how shall we fix this?
> 
> Our experience in xcb was that you can use the pthread locking APIs
> directly.  On linux, glibc has 'weak' stubs which are used when -lpthread
> isn't used by the application.  Other systems either appear to include
> those APIs in libc directly.
> 
> The requirement that I see is that applications needn't tell cairo that
> they are using multiple threads, and that the application never get
> control while any internal lock is held.
> 
> -keith
> 

Won't depending on pthreads make hurt cairo's portability?  Win32 and
various embedded systems definatly don't have pthreads.

stuart