🚀 go-pugleaf

"SubZero" <g_ates@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:4633777f$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> void inline __fastcall lockCriticalSection(TCriticalSection 
> *criticalSection)
> {
>  HANDLE hMutex;
>
>  // Create a mutex with no initial owner.
>
>  hMutex = CreateMutex(
>   NULL,                       // no security attributes
>   true,                      // initially owned
>   String((int)(void*)criticalSection).c_str());  // name of mutex
>
>  DWORD dwWaitResult;
>
>  // Request ownership of mutex.
>
>  if(hMutex)
>  {
>   dwWaitResult = WaitForSingleObject(
>   hMutex,   // handle to mutex
>   5000L);   // five-second time-out interval

Perhaps I am mistaken, but it looks to me like the problem is obvious...your 
comment says, "Create a mutex with no initial owner", but the code creates 
it owned (conflicts with the comment).  Then you attempt to wait for the 
mutex, and 5 seconds later, due to timeout, the exception is thrown.

- Dennis