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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MSVC: port pthread code to native Windows threads
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 19:48:35 +1100
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2009/11/4 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
> Andrzej K. Haczewski schrieb:
>
>> +static __inline int win32_cond_init(win32_cond_t *cond)
>> +{
>> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 cond->waiters =3D 0;
>> +
>> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 InitializeCriticalSection(&cond->waiters_lock);
>> +
>> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 cond->sema =3D CreateSemaphore(NULL, 0, LONG_MAX, NU=
LL);
>
> Wouldn't an Event object be lighter-weight? (I'm only guessing.)

Both events and semaphores resolve to wait-able kernel objects; so
neither is "lighter-weight" than the other.