Re: Re-creating free threaded objects in the face of multiple threads
On Mar 12, 8:11 pm, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandet...@mvps.org> wrote:
Yes, I guess it's possible. Just do CreateIOne(); ReleaseIOne(); then,
in this order.
Not sure I get this Igor. Doesn't that order create the interface
pointer and release it right away?
Actually, now that I think of it, the whole idea is not going to work.
It is possible for one thread to release and destroy the object, just as
another is calling a method on it.
This should be safe, but requires locking for the normal case:
Ah! I wanted to avoid that -- the problem is my application pumps
real time stock market data into a COM server and this method call
will probably called quite a few times. A lock on the normal flow
might cause unacceptable bottlenecks.
void CallCOMWrapperMethod()
{
for (;;) {
IOne* pCopy = 0;
Lock();
pCopy = pOne_;
pCopy->AddRef();
Unlock();
HRESULT hr = pCopy->CallThisMethod();
Lock();
pCopy->Release();
if (FAILED(hr) && pCopy == pOne_) {
// We need to recreate the object
CreateIOne();
ReleaseIOne();
}
Unlock();
if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) break;
}
}
In the worst case, I will go with this approach but I am sure I must
be missing something -- does that CreateIOne, ReleaseIOne order
releases the interfaces pointer right away?
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