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* misc: add a synchronization helperwm42018-05-241-0/+62
This is almost like rendezvous(), except it allows async wakeup, and does not require global state. It will be used by a later commit. struct mp_waiter is intended to be allocated on the stack, and uses an initializer including PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER. This is the first case in mpv that it uses PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER for stack-allocated mutexes. It seems POSIX still does not allow this formally, but since POSIX is worth less than used toilet paper, I don't really care. Modern OSes use futexes, which means you can make _every_ memory location a lock, and this code tries to make use of it, without using OS specific code. The name of the source file is rather generic, because I intend to dump further small helpers there (or maybe move mp_rendezvous() to it).