rewrite to avoid unnecessary redraws

[wxWidgets.git] / src / unix / threadpsx.cpp

diff --git a/src/unix/threadpsx.cpp b/src/unix/threadpsx.cpp
index f0a19482a01340d443029899539ba8cc018a8cbb..8207ca3576072ac0ac206f8a7575ed279aefcc6b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/unix/threadpsx.cpp
+++ b/src/unix/threadpsx.cpp
@@ -164,8 +164,26 @@ wxMutex::wxMutex()
 {
     m_internal = new wxMutexInternal;
 
-    pthread_mutex_init(&(m_internal->m_mutex),
-                       (pthread_mutexattr_t*) NULL );
+    // support recursive locks like Win32, i.e. a thread can lock a mutex which
+    // it had itself already locked
+    //
+    // but initialization of recursive mutexes is non portable <sigh>, so try
+    // several methods
+#ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_T
+    pthread_mutexattr_t attr;
+    pthread_mutexattr_init(&attr);
+    pthread_mutexattr_settype(&attr, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE);
+
+    pthread_mutex_init(&(m_internal->m_mutex), &attr);
+#elif defined(HAVE_PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER)
+    // we can use this only as initializer so we have to assign it first to a
+    // temp var - assigning directly to m_mutex wouldn't even compile
+    pthread_mutex_t mutex = PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP;
+    m_internal->m_mutex = mutex;
+#else // no recursive mutexes
+    pthread_mutex_init(&(m_internal->m_mutex), NULL);
+#endif // HAVE_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_T/...
+
     m_locked = 0;
 }