Subj : Re: Question about: createthread/beginthread/beginthreadex ?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Hopwood
Date : Mon Mar 14 2005 10:38 pm

mandatory wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Ive been used to use createhread() - then ive seen some examples with 
> beginthread() - and some references til beginthreadex().

Always create Windows threads using AfxBeginThread, since AFX threads
will work in any context, whereas threads created using CreateThread or
_beginthread[ex] will break [*] or leak resources in programs that use
MFC.

See "The n Habits of Highly Defective Windows Applications",
<http://www.flounder.com/badprogram.htm#beginthread>.

Even if you don't think you are using MFC, third-party libraries
(and some non-obvious MS libraries) may use it, or you may need to use
it in future. It's easier to just use AfxBeginThread from the start.


[*] they can break in quite subtle ways. For example, in one program I
     worked on, a non-AFX thread that used a third-party component
     which called MFC socket APIs worked to some extent, but performance
     was terrible due to MFC timers not being initialized correctly.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk>

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