Re: mutex won't release

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From: Ad Lagendijk
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:52

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Thanks.
It works.
Aart

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Ad Lagendijk" <ad_lagendijk@yahoo.com_no_spam> wrote in message
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> >     HANDLE hMutex = CreateMutex(NULL,true,"1");
> >     ReleaseMutex(hMutex);  // hMutex does not seem to
> >    become invalid after this
>
> Releasing a mutex is not the same thing as freeing the mutex memory.
> ReleaseMutex() simply gives up ownership of the mutex so that another
> thread/process can gain ownership.  To actually free the resources that
the
> mutex uses, you have to use CloseHandle().
>
>
> Gambit
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