Re: Semantics of copying mutex/rwlock

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> What I do is call pthread_mutex_destroy() on every old lock, allocate
> a new array, call pthread_mutex_init() on all locks in new array and
> then free old array.  I guess there is no way around it.

There is, actually - you could use an array of pthread_mutex_t *, with
the mutexes themselves allocated separately and individually.  It means
more allocations and complicated allocation code, it might be worth it.

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