Cygwin 1.7: Concurrency Issue with Shared State Initialization

[Schmidt, Oliver]

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

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