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I was wondering if this can be used outside of Windows context.
Edit: I'm asking specifically for Linux context.
Please don't
Why not? Would you rather that we have a Windows-exclusive subsystem in our kernel?
Kernel devs then would want to make it stable API. I don't want Windows API being stable part of kernel.
It mostly implements racy stuff like pulsing event.
There is already known subsystem that does not have stable API because it is used by only one project - DRI.
Backwards compatibility is important
How does that have to do with the sync primitive?
Since it's a new feature, would it not cause incompatibility for any kernel versions before it was added?