[issue11618] Locks broken wrt timeouts on Windows

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

As it stands, the patch is pointless, and can safely be rejected. We will just not have defined NTDDI_VERSION at NTDDI_VISTA for any foreseeable future, so all the Vista-specific code can be eliminated from the patch.

Python had been using dynamic checking for API "forever". In 2.5, there was a check for presence of GetFileAttributesExA; in 2.4, there was a check for CryptAcquireContextA.

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