cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen closedir.c

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au> writes:
> dd_lock cannot be declared as struct pthread_mutex *, since pthread_mutex
> is not permitted in the application namespace of dirent.h.  dirent.h
> is (was) careful about namespaces.  E.g., it keeps out of the application
> namespace for its own struct _dirdesc.  This doesn't work for pthread_mutex
> since that is misdesigned.  (I think pthread_mutex_t is supposed to
> hide the implementation and reduce namespace problems, but struct
> pthread was only declared in <pthread.h> where it is permitted in the
> namespace, so <pthread.h> doesn't bother naming it struct _pthread_mutex.
> Other headers can't define it with a different name (tag) because different
> tags give different structs.)

Since struct pthread_mutex is not part of the API, how about simply
renaming it to struct _pthread_mutex to circumvent the namespace issues?

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