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Re: Mutex and WaitForSingleObject Problem...

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:49
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"Colin Maharaj" <cbm@cablenett.net> wrote in message
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> Yeah but if I lock the file in the producer code, the
> consumer would probably try to open and get an error.

There are potentials for errors no matter what you do.  What happens if you
get an error acessing the mutex?  What happens if you get the mutex but
still can't open the file anyway?  You have to think about things like that.


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