oliver wrote:
>
> Er, it's very easy to implement both automatic and manual win32 events on
> top of pthread condition variables. An event can be implemented as a
> condition variable with a three state predicate, one for unset, one for set,
> and one for pulsed. There is no reason I can think of why you would want
> this in the kernel if your only synchronizing between the threads in a
> process.
>
> Condition variables are like events that somebody took the time to
> implement in a reasonably smart way.
See www.ysl.org... there is a C++ EventSemaphore implementation based
around the Win32 semantics.
Brian Macy
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