This was ignored on Windows. On POSIX, where supported, it controlled
if we ended up with a proper system thread or a user-mode thread. Linux
did not support this.
Switch 'self' 'join' and 'create' from using the vtable to being called
via normal g_system_thread_* internal API (implemented in each of
gthread-{posix,win32}.c).
Again, we can put NULL in the vtable since these were never used from
gthread.h.
Thread priorities were already documented as not working on Solaris, and
they are meaningless on Linux unless the process separately requests
realtime scheduling (and even then, it appears only to work as root).
We can safely put a NULL into the vtable for set_priority since nothing
outside of gthread.c ever calls this (and that call is gone).
We remove the macros while at the same time switching all libglib users
from g_private_new() to g_private_init(). We deal with the strange
expectations of the libglib code that g_private_* should work before the
GPrivate has been initialised with a temporary shim.
- expose the structure types for GLib internal use only
- avoid infinite recursion hazards by ensuring that GPrivate never
calls back into any other part of GLib
- substantially rework the Windows implementation so that it never
holds locks, contains no arbitrary limits and doesn't waste
100*sizeof(void*) per thread
We have to keep the macro hacks for the time being since some code
inside libglib depends on it.
The original GMutex/GCond rework patch introduced some temporary code to
cope with GLib's old approach to thread initialisation. These are no
longer required.
Now that nothing inside of GLib is using g_cond_new(), we can implement
it using GSlice. Since the implementations for POSIX and Windows are
now the same, move it to gthread.c.
Now that nothing inside of GLib is using g_mutex_new, we can implement
it using GSlice. Since the implementations for POSIX and Windows are
now the same, move it to gthread.c.
Do a substantial rework of the GMutex and GCond APIs.
- remove all of the macro indirection hackery which is no longer needed
since we dropped support for switchable thread implementations
- expose the structure types and add G_MUTEX_INIT and G_COND_INIT
static initialiser macros
- add g_mutex_init() and g_mutex_clear() for use when embedding GMutex
into another structure type and do the same for GCond as well
- avoid infinite recursion hazards by ensuring that neither GCond or
GMutex ever calls back into any other part of GLib
- substantially rework the Windows implementation of GCond and GMutex
to use the SRWLock and CONDITION_VARIABLE APIs present on Windows
2008/Vista and later, emulating these APIs on XP
