Subject: bug#7073: no pthread_spinlock_t on Mac OS 10.6.4

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:32:27 -0700

On 09/20/10 02:24, Bruno Haible wrote:
> why not use mutexes instead of spinlocks on this platform?

That might be a good thing to try, though it'd take more work.

Chen, what do you think?  Here's the email that started this discussion:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-09/msg00065.html