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Subject: Re: Approaches to threading

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 16:10:33 06/15/04

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On June 15, 2004 at 18:01:07, Sean Empey wrote:

>Since you are writing it in C look at: _beginthread

Actually, you should use _beginthreadex() and _endthreadex(). CreateThread()
links to the single threaded C run time libraries, while _beginthread() and
_beginthreadex() link to the multithreaded C run time libraries. If you know you
are using the C run time libraries, you should use _beginthreadex(). If you
think you aren't using the C run time libraries, you should still use
_beginthreadex(), because it is almost impossible to know for sure that some
other library isn't using the C run time library under the hood.
_beginthreadex() is to be preferred over _beginthread() because _beginthread()
can cause an unrecoverable race condition in some cases. To be safe, use
_beginthreadex() and _endthreadex().



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