NTPL & pthreads locks

[Dan Kegel]

Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> I don't think we can implement Win32 primitives on top of pthreads, at
> least not in a reasonable way. We may be able to do it on top of the
> raw kernel futexes, but that's not exactly libc integration (and it
> will most likely require new kernel features too). And the only reason
> for doing that would be performance, it's certainly not going to make
> things more intuitive or more solid.

Somebody begs to differ.  From
http://downloads.transgaming.com/files/winex-3_0_releasenotes.txt :

    * The core threading model has moved to pthreads to decouple WineX from
      the continuing changes to certain core system libraries.

If Gav can do it, why can't we? :-)
- Dan

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