spinlock class?

[Joe Buehler]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> But why not just use a critical section?  It's roughly the same thing,
> isn't it?

If you're talking about the WIN32 CriticalSection functions, I don't know
WIN32 well enough to be aware of all the subtleties.  I am locking a
large array that gets duplicated by a fork() and I did not want to run
into any inheritance problems with WIN32 objects.
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Joe Buehler