Re: Wait for "signal" from another application and/or thread

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:32

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<zoom> wrote:

>What I want in my code is to allow every thread to iterate once when event
>is set.

Then don't reset the event from inside your thread. When you reset it,
it stops waking up threads.

Or use semaphore (See CreateSemaphore() ) as Eugene suggests.
Then, instead of SetEvent(), you would use ReleaseSemaphore() with a
count of how many threads you want to wake up.

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