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Re: Quick testfeedback...


On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:56:41PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:48:12PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:40:31PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:00:11PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >> > +  if (iswinnt)
> >> > +    InitializeCriticalSection (&criticalsection);
> >> > +  else
> >> > +    {
> >> > +      this->win32_obj_id =::CreateMutex (&sec_none_nih, false, NULL);
> >> > +      if (!win32_obj_id)
> >> > +        magic = 0;
> >> > +    }
> >> 
> >> Could somebody give me a short hint why we're using critical
> >> sections on NT only?  I need some three word only description...
> >> something memorable...
> >
> >Whoops, is the fact that TryEnterCriticalSection() is only
> >available since NT4 the reason, perhaps???
> 
> Apparently.
> 
> Cygwin's muto class actually does a sort of critical section and has
> TryEnterCriticalSection capabilities.
> 
> I don't think that mutos are necessarily general purpose enough for
> this but maybe we could do something similar.  Or we could probably
> roll our own version of TryEnterCriticalSection.

Don't worry.  I'm just asking to know how to name the new wincap
flag for that stuff. :-)

Corinna

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