Re: COM message pump
"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:131D00B2-A75C-4C06-9FC5-D85FF2A36E85@microsoft.com
I have tried the sample and the result is really surprising. I posed
the result below. It seems the method STDMETHODIMP
CSTAReentrancy::CallMeManyTimesFromDifferentThreads(ISomeDummyObj
*pDummy) is entered by two threads (Thread 1 and Thread 2 in client
at the same time).
Print the thread ID (as returned by GetCurrentThreadId) at the beginning
of CallMeManyTimesFromDifferentThreads to convince yourself that all
calls indeed execute on the same thread. What you observe is reentrancy
in action (which was the point of exercise): while the method is waiting
for pDummy->SomeMethod() call to return, it can be called again
(reentered) on the same thread.
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With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
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