IGNORE LAST POST; gc not at fault; questions about mutexes vs critical sections

Sun Dec 23 15:27:00 GMT 2001

"Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
> http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/win32-cv-1.html

Thanks for this link -- I inherited an implementation of
wait()/notify() from Jeff Sturm which uses PulseEvent, and it seems to
work very well under heavy use. However, I will verify (later on) that
it is not susceptible to any of the subtle errors pointed out in this
paper.
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