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Article #13637Re: Thread questions
From: Jonathan Starr
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:36
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:36
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I should have mentioned that I am seeing these behaviors with Code Guard on. Jonathan Starr wrote: > I have two issues: > > 1. thread suspend/resume > > If a low-priority thread is suspended, and a high-priority thread > Resumes the low-pri thread but the high-priority thread continues > to run, under what cirsumstances will the low-pri thread actually > begin to execute? > > If the high-pri thread, while continuing to run, calls a thread method of > the low-pri thread to Synchronize, will that make any difference (the > high-pri thread should be the UI thread, and would call the other > thread's method just to avoid duplicate code or complicated flow > control). > > Thanks in advance. > > PS What is happening is that the low-pri thread *appears* to begin > executing > at a random point while the high-pri thread is busy again. > > 2. locking > > A thread may acquire a TCriticalSection a lock multiple times before > releasing it. The > lock maintains a counter internally. > > I had thought that if a thread acquired such a lock several times and > released it once, > it still held it - another thread would block trying to acquire it > until it was released > as many times as acquired. But I am seeing a case in which a single > release seems to > allow another thread to acquire the lock. > > Comments? >
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