Re: Need help with Mutex

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:36

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Dennis Jones wrote:

>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.

The CreateMutex(true) returns with ownership.
The wait() satisfies with pre-ownership to eliminate deadlock.
Drawback is now the mutex is owned twice and should be released twice.

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