[issue11618] Locks broken wrt timeouts on Windows

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Interestingly, it used to be a Semaphore up to [5e6e9e893acd]; in
> [cde4da18c4fa], Yakov Markovitch rewrote this to be the faster
> implementation we have today.

At that time, the Pythread_* functions were still in use by the GIL
implementation, and it made a difference judging by the commit message.

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