# What You Can Generally Ignore

- ## Win32 Threads: Posix threads, some would say, are a more useful framework for server applications

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- ## Higher level objects and interfaces you can generally ignored because they’re normally a bad idea:

  - Read/Write locks
  - Critical Sections (or recursive mutexes)
  - Semaphores
  - Thread Priorities and Scheduling
  - Thread Cancellation and Exception Handling

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