Ryan Johnson wrote: > Out of curiosity, how much did removing the racy optimization hurt > performance? The patch just yanked it completely iirc. An alternative > might be to have the main thread check for single-thread environment > only at acquire time, and then release only if it acquired (the latter > is probably a good idea regardles...).
The problem is, IIRC there is no such thing as a single-thread environment for cygwin programs: every cygwin program has a secondary thread that handles translating certain windows events into unixy signals, or something like that. I think. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple