Re: How to tell if thread owns critical section?
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:52:59 -0500, "George" <JungleGeorge@newsgroup.nospam>
wrote:
Hello all,
I have an app where I run a variable number of identical threads. In order
to use "try-throw-catch" error handling I have "wrapped" the WorkerBee
threads in the following function:
void WorkerBeeWrapper(LPVOID lpParam)
{
EnterCriticalSection(&cs);
try
{
WorkerBee( MYWORKSPACE* lpParam );
}
catch(char* str)
{
// process errors I define
}
catch( ... )
{
// process other errors
}
// problem is here ...
LeaveCriticalSection(&cs);
}
The WorkerBee() function enters and exits the same critical section as it
does it's job. My problem is this: How to tell in the WorkerBeeWrapper()
function whether or not the ending thread owns the critical section. Because
there may be an error exit, I do not know. The TryEnterCriticalSection does
not help because I must exit the critical section as many times as I enter
it, so success means I must exit at least once and maybe two times. How to
tell? Same question.
I think I must hack the critical section structure
That would be a mistake.
but my attempts thus far
have all crashed and burned. All docs I have found warn against messing with
the structure.
You should heed those warnings.
Any help, alternatives, clues, pointers to docs, etc. would be appreciated.
I would reconsider the design of a thread controlling function that
locks/unlocks a mutex at its beginning and end and calls out to other code
in between. A mutex should be held as briefly as possible over the most
limited scope possible. If you adhere to these guidelines, you won't have
this problem. But if what you're doing is necessary, you can maintain an
ownership flag yourself. It's not uncommon for a Lock class (whose main
purpose is to provide RAII) to do this.
--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP
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