Porting windows manual-reset event to Linux?

Question

Is there any easier solution in porting a windows manual-reset event to pthread, than a pthread conditional-variable + pthread mutex + a flag if event is set or unset?

Answer 1

We were looking for a similar solution to port some heavily-multithreaded C++ code from Windows to Linux, and ended up writing an open source, MIT-licensed Win32 Events for Linux library. It should be the solution you are looking for, and has been heavily vetted for performance and resource consumption.

It implements manual and auto-reset events, and both the WaitForSingleObject and WaitForMultipleObject functionalities.