Mutex Sempahore Question (Owner Died)

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From: Keith Bennett
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 17:01

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We have an applications with multiple processes sharing mutex
semaphores.  Recently we had a problem where one of the processes 
would occasionally trap and abort that process.  (We have since fixed 
that problem.)  If it happened to own a semaphore when it died, all the 
other processes could not use that semaphore, since they would receive 
an error #105 (ERROR_SEM_OWNER_DIED).

Is there any way to create the semaphore such that if its owner dies, it 
is released automatically?  In our case, this might be helfpul.


Thanks for any answers... - Keith
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Keith Bennett                            Bennett Business Solutions, Inc.
C++/C Software Development               1852 Middlebridge Drive
kbennett@cpcug.org                       Silver Spring, MD USA 20906

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