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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] win32: replace custom mutex and condition varia
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] win32: replace custom mutex and condition variable with native primitives |
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Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:25:26 -0400 (EDT) |
> 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