> The major implication of this patch is that it drops support for > pre-Vista versions of Windows. However, those OSes are past their end > of life, and other OSS projects have dropped support. e.g.; the last > Cygwin release supporting XP was in Jun 2016. It doesn't seem like a > good tradeoff to invest effort in fixing broken code needed to support > them, so hopefully this isn't too controversial.
Certainly fine by me! The original reason to introduce these was that Wine didn't support SRWLocks, but now it does. Paolo
