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Re: pthreads works, sorta

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:51:13PM +0800, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
>"Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> wrote:
>
>[skipped]
>
>> What does all this mean? We need to catch invalid memroy access, and
>> ValidQuery was supplied by Chris as a tool to do that.
>
>In a multithreaded environment VirtualQuery, IsBad* and similar approaches
>are wrong. It can't be guaranteed that after a successful test that memory
>will be still accessable.

They are not necessarily wrong if they are controlled by appropriate mutexes.
The file handling code should be protected this way.   I don't know about
the thread code, though.

cgf

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