Bug#173082: libnss-db's libc-lock.h
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:51:34AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Glibc defines __LT_SPINLOCK_INIT on HPPA as "1". Another constant hods
> the initializer; __LT_SPINLOCK_INIT is a predicate.
That's really fucking stupid. Nothing in that name indicates to me it
should be used as a predicate. And it wasn't when I originally defined
it, it was (as its name implies) the value to initialise a spinlock to.
Call it __LT_MUTEX_INITIALISER_NEEDED or __LT_SPINLOCK_INIT_P or
something.
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