Jonas Maebe wrote:
By implication this means you need a mutex to protect against race
conditions.
Not necessarily, it is at least possible to implement an atomic linked
list without requiring a mutex-style lock.
That's irrelevant. If thread 1 lets thread 2 do something, and thread 2
would signal thread 1 after completion, then thread 1 might not have
started to wait yet (descheduled just before cond_wait). Could happen
for example with TThread.Synchronize.
Windows events do not have this problem since they are stateful. In
hindsight, a semaphore might have been a better emulation of an 'Event'
(although I've not thought this through completely), but at the time
condition variables seemed to be the logical way to go.
Micha
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