Re: Semantics of copying mutex/rwlock

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:38:25 +0400
Denis Lagno <dlagno%rambler.ru@localhost> wrote:

> > > memcpy(&new_mutex, &old_mutex, sizeof(pthread_mutex_t))
> 
> > Maybe - but maybe not.
> 
> At least it should be safe to copy PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER, I guess?

I think the macro only works with statically allocated objects.