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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 19:51:07 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: pthread condition vars - Doh!
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In-Reply-To: <025701c0c861$e40e01c0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:46:52AM +1000

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:46:52AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>I've just found out that SignalObjectAndWait, which I use in several
>locations in the pthreads code, is not available on 9x platforms.
>SignalObjectAndWait is the appropriate function to prevent races for
>emulated posix objects that involve more than 1 win32 object.

Yep.  I have long wanted a SingalObjectAndWait for Cygwin's signal
handling but I couldn't use it for this reason.  I missed that you
were using this in your new code.

I assume that you'll be providing some kind of wrapper to handle
this?

cgf