Win32 Read/Write Lock Using Only Critical Sections

Question

I have to implement a read/write lock in C++ using the Win32 api as part of a project at work. All of the existing solutions use kernel objects (semaphores and mutexes) tha

Answer 1

Check out the spin_rw_mutex from Intel's Thread Building Blocks ...

spin_rw_mutex is strictly in user-land and employs spin-wait for blocking