Re: crypt mutex

[Mikael Djurfeldt]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> can lists be meaningfully made thread safe?

Your general question is very relevant.  Regarding this example, my
answer would be that we should limit ourselves to making sure that we
don't get segfault or memory corruption if multiple threads randomly
mutates pairs.  If a threaded program needs thread safe (in this case:
mutually exclusive) access to a list data structure, it uses a mutex.

M