PF> DosEnterCritSec() should not be used. Period.  
PF> Only lazy programmers use
PF> it, usually because they don't really understand how os/2 works (and
PF> certainly don't understand SMP); they are bound to 
PF> write crappy software.

 DN> Any idea why IBM is using it in the startup code for 
 DN> IBM VA compilied exe's? I noticed it awhile back when 
 DN> using OS2TRACE.

All I can think of is that there is some source from the 16bit days in
there,  when you could not start a thread in a suspended state without crit
sec.  Or perhaps during RTL cleanup,  it calls crit sec.

I know for certain that it does not use crit sec in the runtime (it has a
private semaphore api that kicks butt),  which is what we've been
discussing.


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