Re: [PATCH] compat: Allow static initializer for pthreads on Windows

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Am 27.10.2016 um 19:01 schrieb Stefan Beller:
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It is not possible to mark a mutex uninitialized on Windows without an
extra piece of data. A solution would become quite complicated quite
quickly, and at the cost of additional operations that are in the same
ballpark as an uncontended mutex. I'm not enthused.

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The positive aspect of this way the patch proposes would be that any
future contributor not knowing the details of how to do mutexes right
on Windows, would not totally break the whole system, i.e. this seems
to be more maintainable in the future as it reduces the friction between
pthreads mutexes and the way we can do things in Git in a platform
independent way

This is a non-argument. Coders have to know their tools.

The codebase should strive to give coders a coherent abstraction
that can be implemented efficiently on platforms, so that coders do
not have to care too deeply about quirks that exist on individual
platforms.

It is OK to argue that the particular solution Stefan lifted from
somewhere (perhaps msdn article he cited???) does not qualify as
such an abstraction.  But I do not agree with your "Coders have to
know" as a blanket statement.