Knowledge: win32

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Multithreaded Programming with Win32 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130109126

This book describes techniques for designing and implementing multithreaded software applications.

Strategies for Implementing POSIX Condition Variables on Win32 
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/win32-cv-1.html

This article explores various techniques and patterns for implementing POSIX condition variables correctly and/or fairly on Win32.

POSIX Threads (pthreads) for Win32 
http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/

An implementation of POSIX pthreads for Win32. [Open source, LGPL].

Pelt: POSIX Wrapper for Windows Threads 
http://www.openasthra.com/opensource/pelt-posix-wrapper-for-windows-threads/

This package provides a POSIX layer on top of Win32 threads to facilitate porting of Unix applications to Win32 platforms. [Open Source, LGPL]

Multithreading for Rookies 
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms810438.aspx

Focuses on some practical applications of Win32 multithreading.

Compound Win32 Synchronization Objects 
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms810427.aspx

Describes strategies to combine the Win32 synchronization primitives into more complex synchronization objects. It presents several solutions for implementing advanced synchronization objects along with a comparison of how they perform.

Synchronization Primitives New to Windows Vista 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/06/Concurrency/

Focuses on several of the new thread synchronization features introduced with Windows Vista: condition variables, slim reader/writer locks, and one-time initialization.

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