Subj : Re: SEM_UNDO substitute on windows
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Vyacheslav Kononenko
Date : Tue May 24 2005 02:13 pm



Torsten Robitzki wrote:
> Vyacheslav Kononenko wrote:

> >
> > Hmm. How about a case when I have one writer and many readers and one
> > of the readers crashes? That should be safe to just unlock in this
> > case. Am I wrong?
>
> Depends on why the reader crashed ;-) Maybe due to a bogus write to memory.

Right. But it should let other readers try to crush too.

Regards,
Vyacheslav

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