[issue11618] Locks broken wrt timeouts on Windows

[Kristján Valur Jónsson]

Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> added the comment:

Emulating condition variables on windows became easy once Semaphores were provided by the OS because they provide a way around the lost wakeup problem.  The current implementation in cpython was submitted by me :)  The source material is provided for reference only.

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