clock function thread safety - was Re: [PD-dev] devel_0_37 branch

[Thomas Grill]

Hi,

> What's wrong with simply putting a mutex around all of Pd? that way other
> threads could just make calls right into "receive" objects without having
> to set and wait for clock callbacks.  Perhaps I'm missing something but
that
> seems the much simpler solution for making threaded externs.
>
> Pd's scheduler would simply lock all pf Pd whenever it issues a message or
> runs a DSP tick, and unlock it when it ``idles".

that sounds very reasonable and efficient.
The reason why i preferred the clock functions is probably my lack of
insight.
Is my understanding right that there shall be something like pd_lock() and
pd_unlock() functions that are used around every call into the pd API from a
second thread?

best greetings,
Thomas