Re: [OT] Win32 condition variable implementation

Branko Čibej wrote:
> Yes, but it doesn't implement the semantics of POSIX condition variables
> -- it doesn't release and reacquire the mutex associated with the
> condition whie waiting for the signal. The problem with these simple
> inplementations on Windows has always been that
>
> release(mutex)
> wait(event)
> acquire(mutex)
>
> has a race condition because the release and wait can't be performed
> atomically.

Have you considered using SignalObjectAndWait?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/signalobjectandwait.asp

The only problem is that it's not available in Win 95/98/ME.

/Tobias

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Received on Thu Sep 11 11:05:15 2003