[Libvir] PATCH: Fix and cleanup ref counting/ domain/network object release

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:48:58PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >   That I found worrying. What is the added benefit for the loss of 
> > portability? You now reference 2 relatively system specific kind of
> > data structure, where we used to reference only the xmlMutex one which
> > was portable. And i don't see why, you need to do this for the goal stated
> > before.
> 
> The problem is that we need to use pthread_t / pthread_create APIs for
> other parts of libvirt. libxml2 doesn't provide any portability layer
> for threads -

  Oh there is a good reason for this :-)

> only for mutexes. Any platform which has pthread_t, already
> has pthread_mutex_t, so although in theory the pthread_mutex_t is less
> portable than xmlMutex, in practice the overall portability is the same
> due to the constraint of needing pthread_t.

  <grin/> ... I see,  Okay +1 

Daniel

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