Rethinking MirWaitHandle

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Daniel van Vugt 
<daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:
> You know it's a feature of MirWaitHandle that multiple threads can 
> and do wait on the same handle? We rely on this feature; I forget 
> where.
> 
> But that means your actual wait call can't free the wait object. More 
> wait calls can and will come along and use it later (from different 
> threads even).

That seems like a mis-feature of MirWaitHandle, really. If people want 
to do cross-thread synchronisation they should probably use thread 
synchronisation primitives rather than rely on MirWaitHandle doing 
double duty.