Dear Gnulib team,
This is Mohammad Akhlaghi, I am the maintainer of the GNU Astronomy
Utilities (gnuastro). Gnuastro was dubbed as a GNU package a few weeks
ago will soon be publicly released (as soon as the copyrights are all
given to the FSF).
I have just started using Gnulib to make gnuastro available to users of
other operating systems. It is truely fantastic, thank you so much for
all the efforts for this wonderful library. I have made lots of use of
the GNU C library functions (like argp and error) and Gnulib worked
great. But I have a problem with pthread_barrier_* types and functions.
I have made extensive use of the pthread_barrier_* types and functions
for the parallel processing parts of gnuastro. But I found out Gnulib
doesn't include them. I wanted to see if it would be possible for you to
include these in the Gnulib version of pthread. Using a pthread_barrier
is simpler than using a mutex and condition variable together when the
jobs are completely independent.
Thank you very much,
Mohammad
