[geeks] Win32 Threads
Jonathan C. Patschke
jp at celestrion.net
Tue Dec 10 21:40:44 CST 2002
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> Hmm. I was trying to strip out the proprietary stuff from my code to
> make an example of what was giving me grief, but the example worked
> properly. Now I just have to figure out what the important difference
> between the two is.
Perhaps in stripping out the code, you've removed a race condition
between multiple threads reading/writing data? If you need both threads
to be writing to the same pieces of data, be sure you're using some sort
of synchronization (critical sections, mutxes, etc.).
--
Jonathan Patschke
"Albert Einstein nailed space-time, but the wild thing had him stumped.
Al, baby, two and two make five-and-a-quarter; that's why people fall
in love." -- Thomas Dolby, "That's Why People Fall in Love"
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