From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crXeE-0001H9-Pl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:25:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crXeB-0006Wu-Lt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:25:30 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crXeB-0006WC-GW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:25:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:25:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <2057576564.7252834.1490394326811.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20170324220141.10104-1-Andrew.Baumann@microsoft.com> References: <20170324220141.10104-1-Andrew.Baumann@microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] win32: replace custom mutex and condition variable with native primitives List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Andrew Baumann Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Andrey Shedel , Stefan Weil > The major implication of this patch is that it drops support for > pre-Vista versions of Windows. However, those OSes are past their end > of life, and other OSS projects have dropped support. e.g.; the last > Cygwin release supporting XP was in Jun 2016. It doesn't seem like a > good tradeoff to invest effort in fixing broken code needed to support > them, so hopefully this isn't too controversial. Certainly fine by me! The original reason to introduce these was that Wine didn't support SRWLocks, but now it does. Paolo