Problems with Mutex

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Mon Oct 27 12:13:00 PDT 2014


On Monday, October 27, 2014 09:24:13 Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:
> Just as a followup, for some reason Mutex is not callable as a shared
> object, so you have to make it __gshared.
>
> This is unfortunate, but it is the only way to do it right now. Because
> an actual mutex is thread safe, it is not a problem.

The reason that it's not shared is because Sean Kelly didn't want to make
much of anything in druntime shared until shared was better ironed out, which
keeps getting talked about but never done.

- Jonathan M Davis



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