[gdal-dev] Mutexes

[Even Rouault]

Andrew,

I don't see myself much value to the mutexes with timeout, at least in 
how they are used within GDAL. What you underline was actually reported 
in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/3631. The fix would be to use a 
non-timeout mutex

Even

Le 03/05/2021 à 17:23, Andrew Bell a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at code in gdalwarpkernel.cpp and there are calls to 
> CPLAcquireMutex that take a "timeout" argument. From looking at 
> cpl_multiproc, on a non-windows system it seems the timeout is 
> ignored, but on WIN32 it is respected in the call, but the return 
> value is generally ignored, meaning that the subsequent code could run 
> without the lock having been acquired.
>
> This seems like strange behavior. Is there a reason for the different 
> behavior on Windows and not-Windows? Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Andrew Bell
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