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Mention newer addition to the thread support in the introduction:
bit locks and one-time initialization.
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Matthias Clasen 2011-05-27 20:22:20 -04:00
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* portable means for writing multi-threaded software. There are
* primitives for mutexes to protect the access to portions of memory
* (#GMutex, #GStaticMutex, #G_LOCK_DEFINE, #GStaticRecMutex and
* #GStaticRWLock). There are primitives for condition variables to
* #GStaticRWLock). There is a facility to use individual bits for
* locks (g_bit_lock()). There are primitives for condition variables to
* allow synchronization of threads (#GCond). There are primitives for
* thread-private data - data that every thread has a private instance
* of (#GPrivate, #GStaticPrivate). Last but definitely not least there
* are primitives to portably create and manage threads (#GThread).
* of (#GPrivate, #GStaticPrivate). There are facilities for one-time
* initialization (#GOnce, g_once_init_enter()). Last but definitely
* not least there are primitives to portably create and manage
* threads (#GThread).
*
* The threading system is initialized with g_thread_init(), which
* takes an optional custom thread implementation or %NULL for the