Hi Corrina, Thanks for your involvement :-)
>> [...] a spinlock [...] With >> InterlockedCompareExchange() and Sleep() it should be quite simple to >> create one that's very efficient in the usual scenario. > Does the below patch fix this for you? I'll test the snapshot asap! [...] + LONG init = InterlockedCompareExchange (&installation_root_init, 1L, 0L); [...] + low_priority_sleep (0); [...] I see we were thinking along the same lines ;-) Regards, Oliver -- 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
