From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:50:22 +1000

Re: SYNC mode should go

MentalGuy writes:

>  I've been beating my brains out over the past week or so trying to come up
>  with a decent thread-friendly locking scheme that would be consistent with
>  and with USE_THREADS and didn't break the signal implementation of mansync
>  (or vice versa), and while I sort of worked out an API with both a
>  signal-friendly intlock/sigmask locking implementation and a pthreads
>  implementation, it's still a pretty ugly and inconsistent solution.
>  
>  Honestly, we should really drop SYNC mode...

I second that.

SYNC mode is not something that can easily emulated when the target
isn't natively sync-ish (like KGI and FBDev are).  

Like I said before, in all the docs (and demo.c) we strongly recommend
not using SYNC mode, yet it remains (and as the default too!).

It definitely should be go IMHO.

Cheers,
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