[fpc-devel] Patch for RTLEvent calls which fixes a race condition

[Micha Nelissen]

Lloyd Park wrote:
> I had problems with a threaded app under Linux which hung because one
> thread would sometimes call RTLSetEvent before the other called
> RTLEventStartWait.  The attached patch for the 2.1.1 branch revision
> 5606 fixes the problem.

Better rewrite it to use semaphore (sem_*) functions. The conditional
variables are very disappointing (exactly for the reason you describe).

Micha