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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:36:17 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: muto object.
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In-Reply-To: <20010917000144.A7155@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:01:44AM -0400

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:01:44AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>I really wish that Microsoft had given us an open a thread given the
> >>thread id function similar to OpenProcess.  I think I read somewhere
> >>that they actually did have a reason for not doing so but it makes
> >>these kind of situations hard.
> >
> >They did, it's 2k+ only :[.  GetThreadHandle (Id) IIRC.
> 
> Yeah.  I should have qualified that.  I remember being surprised to see
> that function after having read that they specifically did not provide
> this interface previously.

OpenThread() is W2K+ and ME(!)

However, this is the Win32 API.  The OpenThread functionality would
already be available in earlier NTs by autoloading the NtOpenThread()
or ZwOpenThread() functions from ntdll.dll.

Only 95/98 would lack that support.

Corinna

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