Re: [TSVN] status cache, mutexes

SteveKing wrote:

> 1. critical sections aren't good enough to guard the cache. The reason
> for that is that the cache is global in the COM dll and therefore used
> by all processes concurrently. A mutex is needed to guard it.
> You can easily try this out yourself: create a simple dll which only
> shows a messagebox telling you the address of a dll global string. Then
> create a simple exe which does nothing more than load this dll (make
> sure it doesn't exit immediately so the dll stays loaded). Then start
> the exe several times - each time you start the exe another process is
> started and the dll is loaded into process space. But the dll tells you
> the same address of the global string, no matter which process it has
> been loaded from.
> Since I've experienced crashs when just using critical sections I
> started to wonder and used mutexes for some time now. But to be sure I
> just wrote such a test dll and exe.

Hmmm - I've extended the test a little. Now it seems that the dll has
different global variables for each process as I would expect. I'll do
some more tests and report back...

Stefan

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