Subj : How to return a value before leaving critical section?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : MC
Date : Tue Jul 19 2005 07:49 pm

Threading newbie here.  This question has surely been answered 1000
times.  

I have a member variable that I want to share between two threads.  I
make it private and I write a public accessor function, inside which,
I use a mutex--actually, I use a Windows CRITICAL_SECTION variable and
then call Enter/LeaveCriticalSection() but I'm hoping that's beside
the point.  The dilemna, of course, is that both statements need to be
the last statement of the function:

return m_MyMember;
        *and*
LeaveCriticalSection(m_pMyCrSection);

I could use an output parameter instead of a return value but then the
calling code gets uggggglyyy!  Is this the only solution?

TIA
Craig

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