Re: A Quick Question about Threads

Mark Sizer wrote:

I wouldn't bet my life, or even a paycheck on it, but I'm pretty sure. It may be a distinction that some book made years ago that has stuck in my head.

Here's MSDN's summary (not that I'm claiming MSDN is authoritative): http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/bas...

It looks like you probably saw this already and changed your mind halfway throught he post, but did you read the last paragraph? <quote> When a critical section object is owned, the only other threads affected are those waiting for ownership in a call to EnterCriticalSection. Threads that are not waiting are free to continue running. </quote> Jason