On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:25:38PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 26.10.2016 um 21:51 schrieb Stefan Beller: > > it is > > very convenient to not have to explicitly initialize mutexes? > > Not to initialize a mutex is still wrong for pthreads. I think Stefan was being loose with his wording. There would still be an initializer, but it would be a constant (and in the case of pthread emulation on Windows, would just be NULL). -Peff