From: Vukasin Toroman (vtoroman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-04 09:31:58


Michael van der Westhuizen wrote:
> Vukasin Toroman wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> to my knowledge, PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP exists on
>> FreeBSD, OSX and Linux, so one could say that this is a fairly
>> standard part of posix...
>
>
> I'm afraid not, hence the _NP suffix (not portable). This means
> that it's supposed to obvious that it's *not* a part of Posix.
>
> Michael

I agree, but _NP only means that it cannot be used on ALL
implementations of the Posix standard, but it is a fact that there are
quite a few that do support this extension and that it should not be
ignored so lightly...

Vukasin