Vista is when that API was first implemented. It's doing a pretty weird thing with the locks, I wonder what the actual use case was. Readers should almost neve

Vista is when that API was first implemented. It's doing a pretty weird thing with the locks, I wonder what the actual use case was. Readers should almost never care about other readers. Typically you just grab the lock, read the thing, and release it. You always have to be super careful about deadlocks if you're holding a lock and also waiting around for something else to happen.