Subj : Re: stupid threading question .... To : comp.programming.threads From : David Hopwood Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 11:14 pm John Hickin wrote: > It has been a while since I did anything on Windows but I remember that > there were critical sections under the hood during DLL init. Indeed there has to be mutual exclusion on dynamic library initialization, in any OS or language that supports both threads, and lazy init of dynamic libraries on first use. Allowing libraries to be initialized concurrently by more than one thread couldn't possibly work. -- David Hopwood .