[webkit-reviews] review denied: [Bug 15955] WebCore should use threading abstraction : [Attachment 17203] Reimplements IconDatabase and SQLiteDatabase in terms of threading API

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Brady Eidson <beidson at apple.com> has denied Justin Haygood
<jhaygood at reaktix.com>'s request for review:
Bug 15955: WebCore should use threading abstraction
http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15955

Attachment 17203: Reimplements IconDatabase and SQLiteDatabase in terms of
threading API
http://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=17203&action=edit

------- Additional Comments from Brady Eidson <beidson at apple.com>
I wanted to get to this ever since we first landed the abstraction - thanks for
taking it on!
I have a few nitpicks:

> createThread( IconDatabase::iconDatabaseSyncThreadStart, this );  
No space inside the parens.  Occurs in a few places.

> if(!m_syncThread)
Space after the if.

> -#if PLATFORM(DARWIN)
> -    ASSERT(pthread_main_np());
> -#endif
This block of code is valuable, and I would like to see it eventually expanded
to include all platforms.
The Threading abstraction doesn't yet support a "getMainThreadID()" so there's
not (yet) a drop in replacement, so I'm a little torn on what to do with it
now...	Since adding such an interface would be an exercise in adding platform
specific code whereas this patch is an exercise in removing it!  
I think leaving this block for now (along with the pthread.h include for DARWIN
only) and filing a bug with a FIXME would be sufficient.

> -#ifndef NDEBUG
> -    memset(&m_openingThread, 0, sizeof(pthread_t));
> -#endif
It might not be critically necessary since it's debug-only code, but I'd like
to see the thread identifier zero'ed out in the initialization list in place of
this code.