On 07/30/2015 10:50 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
CriticalSection and TEvent derive their names from Windows OS calls,
adopted by Delphi and hence by FPC.
There is nothing FPC specific about it.
OK. Thanks for the clarification.
I understand that the computer science names ate Mutex and Semaphore and
both are adopted by UNIX / POSIX and then by Linux. No idea why the
Windows makers chose to invent a new notation for that old stuff.
-Michael
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