From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:28:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement pthread_cond_broadcast on Windows
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001300328070.3749@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <201001300054.05610.j6t@kdbg.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> See http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~schmidt/win32-cv-1.html, section "The
> SignalObjectAndWait solution". But note that this implementation does not
> use SignalObjectAndWait (which is needed to achieve fairness, but we do
> not need fairness).
> 
> Note that our implementations of pthread_cond_broadcast and
> pthread_cond_signal require that they are invoked with the mutex held that
> is used in the pthread_cond_wait calls.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> ---
>  Junio,
> 
>  please queue this patch for 1.7.0-rc1 even though it has not undergone
>  a lot of review - the result is better than a git that does not even
>  build on Windows.

As you Cc:ed the msysGit list, do you want this in 4msysgit.git, too?

Ciao,
Dscho