Re: WaitForSingleObject() will not deadlock
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:10:38 -0400, Joseph M. Newcomer
<newcomer@flounder.com> wrote:
Which will now give him a completely erroneous solution to his problem. This will
deadlock the GUI thread on itself and the app will go catatonic. He has confused
recursive handling of events with concurrent access via threads, and is approaching the
problem with a completely erroneous model of what is going on, and all attempts to use
synchronization primitives to solve this problem are doomed.
joe
Perhaps I was being a little coy, but I did *not* suggest anything; I
merely explained how things work. If the OP is as confused as you think he
is, my answers to his questions won't be particularly useful, so I was
hoping he'd come back with better questions as he realizes this for
himself. On the other hand, if he's just exploring how things work, my
answers should be helpful. As I read the original post, the question
concerned non-recursive vs. recursive mutexes, e.g. POSIX vs. Windows, and
I answered accordingly. Judging by the OP's other posts in this thread, it
appears I guessed right.
--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP
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