[m-rev.] for post-commit review: isolate all dependencies on POSIX unnamed semaphores

[Paul Bone]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 02:00:02PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> For post-commit review by Paul or Peter.
> 
> ------------------------------------
> 
> Isolate all dependencies on POSIX unnamed semaphores.
> 
> Isolate all dependencies on POSIX unnamed semaphores to the runtime's
> mercury_thread module.  This is a step towards fixing bug #357.
> 
> runtime/mercury_thread.{h,c}:
>     Provide wrappers for the functions sem_destroy and sem_timedwait.
>     The latter does not exist on OS X, so (for now) just abort if it
>     is called.

I was a little confused while reading the diff.  There are actually two
wrappers for sem_timedwait, the C function and the macro.  But only one
wrapper for the other calls.  Making this clearer in the log message would
have made reading the diff slightly less confusing.

> 
> runtime/mercury_context.c:
> library/thread.m:
>      Use the above wrappers instead of calling the sem_* functions
>      directly.
> 

The change itself is fine.

I also commented on this issue in the bug tracker.  The most important
details is probably that I remember choosing semaphores for this code in
particular for very specific reasons, I just don't remember exactly what
those reasons are.


-- 
Paul Bone
http://paul.bone.id.au