Re: [Dar-discussions] Re: Fwd: I would like to cancel archive creation

Johnathan Burchill wrote:
> On June 28, 2004 03:02 pm, Johnathan Burchill wrote:
> 
>>>By the way, note that the mutex used by libdar (and common to all
>>>threads) are never released. If this is a problem it might be possible
>>>to add a call in the API to release them and in consequence forbid any
>>>further call to libdar. The mutex used do not take much memory place
>>>however.
>>
>>In other words, the mutexes are created on the stack?

in fact the mutex is a static variable of the special_alloc.cpp module 
it is pthread_mutex_init() initialized, but never pthread_mutex_destroy()ed.

>>
> 
> Sorry, I meant the heap.

Sure. Here if I don't make any mistake the mutex is created in the data 
segment, but the pthread_mutex_init may use the heap to activate the 
mutex...

> 
> JB



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