Re: Announce: lunix--a Unix API bindings module
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- Subject: Re: Announce: lunix--a Unix API bindings module
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: 2014年1月30日 09:37:04 +0200
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:16 AM, William Ahern
<william@25thandclement.com> wrote:
> 1) Thread-safety--be as thread-safe as possible on the host platform.
> That means using thread-safe patterns within the implementation, and
> providing supplemental or replacement thread-safe implementations for a
> common interface.
Fair enough, but what kind of threading are we speaking of here?
pthreads? Because idiomatic use of luaposix uses the old-fashioned
fork-a-new-universe-and-communicate nothing-shared model. There seems
to be a move away from share-everything concurrency anyway, so maybe
old is the new new?
steve d.