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 (full disclosure: I work at NeoSmart Technologies) wrote an open source (MIT licensed) library called pevents which implements WIN32 manual and auto-reset events on POSIX, and includes both WaitForSingleObject and WaitForMultipleObjects clones. It's seen some adoption since then (it's used in Steam on Linux/Mac) and works fairly well.

Although I'd personally advise you to use POSIX multithreading and signaling paradigms when coding on POSIX machines, pevents gives you another choice if you need it.