Re: [PATCH 27/36] attr: convert to new threadsafe API

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:51:02PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

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I seem to recall this does not work on Windows, where the pthread
functions are thin wrappers over CRITICAL_SECTION. Other threaded code
in git does an explicit setup step before entering threaded sections.
E.g., see start_threads() in builtin/grep.c.

I wonder if we can have a similar thing as
http://stackoverflow.com/a/9490113 in compat/win32/pthread.{h.c} as it is
very convenient to not have to explicitly initialize mutexes?

I agree it would be much more convenient and get rid of some repetitive
boilerplate code. I'll leave it to Windows folks to decide if they are
OK with that approach or not (I do not offhand know of any reason it
would not work).

-Peff