semaphores and Rlocks

[Aahz]

In article <3E03A3F7.2AD7A028 at sdfasdfasdfa.invalid>,
Jive Dadson  <sdfadfsa at sdfasdfasdfa.invalid> wrote:
>
>Yeah.  Win32 CRITICAL_SECTION is implemented the same way, with
>an interlocked increment wrapped around a win32 Mutex.  But
>CRITICAL_SECTION allows a thread to acquire the a lock repeatedly.
>
>By the way, I noticed some comments about not having
>InterlockedIncrement or something like that available on Win98.  I can
>furnish an assembly language version in a C "__asm" thingy if anyone is
>interested.  It would be just about as "portable" as the win32 API.

Someone in the past year on either c.l.py or python-dev was talking
about writing some improvements to thread_nt.h, but I can't find it in a
few minutes of Googling.  If you can find that person and talk with him,
that might be a good first step.
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