Author: Sean Empey
Date: 21:14:22 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(). Which ever; use _beginthread or _beginthreadex (NOTE: _beginthreadex acts like CreateThread() more closely but, _endthreadex does not close the handle whereas _endthread does for _beginthread.). I use _beginthread without issue. Looking at docs on _beginthread will lead you to _beginthreadex. Since you only want an IO thread and a helper thread; I referred you to _beginthread. Use either one but stay away from CreateThread if you want to have better success at cross-platform use. I compiled Storm fine on a Unix box and Windows Box.
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