[fpc-devel] Threads and alot of crap

[Micha Nelissen]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> Not sure if this means it's not necessary in the Mac OS X (and possibly 
> FreeBSD) versions, or that the Mac OS X man pages are incomplete.

It does say: The pthread_cond_signal() function unblocks one thread 
waiting for the condition variable cond.

By implication this means you need a mutex to protect against race 
conditions. Those manual pages are incomplete/too concise I would say.

Micha