Quick testfeedback...

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:48:12PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:40:31PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:00:11PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> > +  if (iswinnt)
>> > +    InitializeCriticalSection (&criticalsection);
>> > +  else
>> > +    {
>> > +      this->win32_obj_id =::CreateMutex (&sec_none_nih, false, NULL);
>> > +      if (!win32_obj_id)
>> > +        magic = 0;
>> > +    }
>> 
>> Could somebody give me a short hint why we're using critical
>> sections on NT only?  I need some three word only description...
>> something memorable...
>
>Whoops, is the fact that TryEnterCriticalSection() is only
>available since NT4 the reason, perhaps???

Apparently.

Cygwin's muto class actually does a sort of critical section and has
TryEnterCriticalSection capabilities.

I don't think that mutos are necessarily general purpose enough for
this but maybe we could do something similar.  Or we could probably
roll our own version of TryEnterCriticalSection.

cgf