[issue11618] Locks broken wrt timeouts on Windows

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

Well, Windows 2000 has semaphores, so why not use them? It makes the code much simpler. Patch attached (including test).

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nosy: +loewis
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21308/semlocknt.patch

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