semaphores and Rlocks

[Jive Dadson]

Aahz wrote:
> 
> 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.

Improving that stuff wouldn't do the trick.  The problem is that no Python synchronization primitive has a timeout.