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

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From: Eugene Mayevski [SecureBlackbox]
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:19

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Bob Gonder wrote:

>>How to make sure that each and every one of the waiting thread be signalled?
> You already create the event to not reset, so if you don't reset the
> event in your thread code, then all threads will get the event signal.

If the event is auto-reset, they will get it either anyway. The 
difference between semaphore and event is that semaphore awakes one 
listener and decrements semaphore by 1. And event awakes all listeners 
and then is reset. So the OP should use semaphores.

-- 
Eugene Mayevski
EldoS Corp., CTO
Networking and security solutions, development and consulting services
http://www.eldos.com

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