# define ENV_TERM NOOP;
#endif
+/* Some critical sections need to lock both the locale and the environment.
+ * XXX khw intends to change this to lock both mutexes, but that brings up
+ * issues of potential deadlock, so should be done at the beginning of a
+ * development cycle. So for now, it just locks the environment. Note that
+ * many modern platforms are locale-thread-safe anyway, so locking the locale
+ * mutex is a no-op anyway */
+#define ENV_LOCALE_LOCK ENV_LOCK
+#define ENV_LOCALE_UNLOCK ENV_UNLOCK
+
+/* And some critical sections care only that no one else is writing either the
+ * locale nor the environment. XXX Again this is for the future. This can be
+ * simulated with using COND_WAIT in thread.h */
+#define ENV_LOCALE_READ_LOCK ENV_LOCALE_LOCK
+#define ENV_LOCALE_READ_UNLOCK ENV_LOCALE_UNLOCK
+
#if defined(HAS_SIGACTION) && defined(SA_SIGINFO)
/* having sigaction(2) means that the OS supports both 1-arg and 3-arg
* signal handlers. But the perl core itself only fully supports 1-arg