On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:01:00AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >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.
Yes, there's at least one extra thread active in every cygwin program. If you've used select() at any point there will be more. cgf -- 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