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On 2008-08-08, Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2008-08-08, Peter Hull <peterhull90@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've never really understood condition variables (so apologies in
> > advance!) but AFAIK there are no condition variables in the Windows
> > API. Are you planning to implement them somehow?
>
> Did it a few years ago :)
>
> With a disclaimer: it turns out that condition variables are hard to
> implement using Win32 thread primitives, and really hard if you want to
> conform to all the details of the POSIX spec. So I didn't try to do *that*.
For the record, I should point out that what I actually did was
translate someone else's algorithm (see src/win/wxthread.c).
* The algorithm used in this implementation is that developed by
* Alexander Terekhov in colaboration with Louis Thomas.
Peter