Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 18:16:25 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 19:10:33, Russell Reagan wrote: >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(). I am not saying you are wrong, but wouldn't it be incredibly moronic to have a function that creates a thread link to the single-threaded run time libraries? anthony
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