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in reply to Re^4: flock on Windows : process killed while in critical region
in thread flock on Windows : process killed while in critical region

Sorry, but unless you link some documentary evidence for that I'm going to say that you are flat-out wrong.

Sleep( 0 ) has always relinquished the current timeslice of the thread on which it is called, from NT 3.5 upto and including Vista....

I do not have hands on knowledge of W/7/8, but I can find no evidence to support your premise there either.


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