[M3devel] giant lock in SocketWin32.m3?

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

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> Anyone know why SocketWin32.m3 has had a giant lock around everything?
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> I see no point to it.
>
> The only global variable is related to on-demand initialization.
>
>   And even that wasn't handled correctly..

Perhaps the network stack on Windows95/98 wasn't really reentrant?

Just a guess though. The code is quite old as far as I know.

Olaf
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