[Gbbopen-developer] Significant revision of GBBopen's Portable Threads interface

[Gary King]

Hi Dan,

Sounds good but...

On Jul 8, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Dan Corkill wrote:

>   * Emphasis on condition variables as the preferred longer-duration
>     wait mechanism.  Condition variables will be emulated on CLs that
>     don't provide them directly.  Condition-variable broadcast is
>     challenging on some CLs, but the goal is to provide it (in
>     addition to signal) where ever feasible.

what's a condition variable? (sending me a link is a fine answer...!)

thanks,
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