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Subj : Re: reliability of setting thread priority
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Wed Feb 23 2005 08:47 pm


<gottlobfrege@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1109219095.518323.167190@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> How reliable/portable/etc is messing with thread priorities?  What do I
> mean?  Well, let me explain the story:
>  In particular, similar to the problems of static local initializers
> and implementing pthread_once, etc., I want to initialize a critical
> section in a thread safe manner. I would use another critical section
> to guard the first CS, but that 'begs the question' as they say. :-)  I
> could use a global named mutex (CreateMutex() under Win32), but that
> seems a bit heavy - and if I was going to use a mutex to make a
> criticalsection, maybe I should just use a mutex where the CS was going
> in the first place.  So I'm left with using one or two global
> variables, and using atomic get and sets, etc., to manage them.

    Why not a global static mutex?

    DS

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