Condition variables?

[Roald Ribe]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On 9/30/07, downs <default_357-line at yahoo.de> wrote:
>> What does one need condition variables for?
>> I'm honestly curious. I've written a few multithreaded programs in D
>> and, so far, haven't needed them :)
> 
> I would guess you're a Windows programmer?
> 
> You don't need them in Windows. Windows has plenty of other mechanisms
> for doing synchronisation. Condition variables is "the linux way".
> 
> Still, I've never really got the hang of them either, so I'd love for
> David to explain further.
> 
> In any case, I don't think they could be put into Phobos except as a
> wrapper around pthreads ... which doesn't exist on Windows. Oh what
> joy.

No?

http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/

Roald