Re: Patch for Review: Thread.interrupt() for MinGW

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at mckinlay dot net dot nz>]

On Thursday, Sep 18, 2003, at 23:54 Pacific/Auckland, Mohan Embar wrote:

> Gladly. I haven't had the courage to try to figure out how to get 
> DejaGNU
> to work with Win32. Anthony Green wrote me and talked about needing a 
> Telnet and
> FTP daemon on my Win32 box. It sounds so complicated. I really do need 
> to
> figure this out, though, though I'd probably always write my own tests 
> on
> top of these.

You can run the individual tests stand-alone if you want - they're just 
plain Java apps.

> > Why lazy initialization - wouldn't it be cleaner to set this up during
> > thread initialization? IIRC there is a hook in the threads interface
> > for exactly that.
>
> I use the hook to initialize the critical section, but not the event. 
> I am
> following Adam's example here, where he warned in the comments that 
> initialization
> of a Win32 event is "insanely expensive". I haven't verified this, but 
> it
> stands to reason that a thread might never sleep, wait, or get 
> interrupted.

OK, sounds reasonable.

Regards

Bryce.