ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" /> <style> <!-- p.MsoNormal {margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0mm; line-height:115%; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} a:link {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited {color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} p {margin-right:0mm; margin-left:0mm; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} --> </style> <title>Using the Win32 mutex objects program example</title> <meta name="keywords" content="Windows system, hardware, tools, download, security, Windows programming, technology, applications, performance, server, computer, processors, microprocessors" /> <meta name="description" content="Program sample and code example on how to use mutex synchronization object for Windows system" /> </head> <body lang="EN-US" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" topmargin="20" leftmargin="20" rightmargin="20" bottommargin="20"> <div class="Section1"> <h3 align="center" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:0; text-align:center; margin-top:0"><font size="5" face="Byington"> <span style="line-height:115%;font-weight:400">Windows Thread Synchronization 20</span></font></h3> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:0; margin-top:0">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" align="center"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-8089415323104206"; google_ad_slot = "0761177910"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; //--> </script> &nbsp;<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b> <font size="3" face="Arial"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-weight:bold">Using Mutex Objects Program Example</span></font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> You can use a mutex object to protect a shared resource from simultaneous access by multiple threads or processes. Each thread must wait for ownership of the mutex before it can execute the code that accesses the shared resource. For example, if several threads share access to a database, the threads can use a mutex object to permit only one thread at a time to write to the database. The following example uses the CreateMutex() function to create a mutex object and the CreateThread() function to create worker threads. When a thread of this process writes to the database, it first requests ownership of the mutex using the WaitForSingleObject() function. If the thread obtains ownership of the mutex, it writes to the database and then releases its ownership of the mutex using the ReleaseMutex() function. This example uses structured exception handling to ensure that the thread properly releases the mutex object. The __finally block of code is executed no matter how the __try block terminates (unless the __try block includes a call to the TerminateThread() function). This prevents the mutex object from being abandoned inadvertently. If a mutex is abandoned, the thread that owned the mutex did not properly release it before terminating. In this case, the status of the shared resource is indeterminate, and continuing to use the mutex can obscure a potentially serious error. Some applications might attempt to restore the resource to a consistent state; this example simply returns an error and stops using the mutex.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> Create a new empty Win32 console application project. Give a suitable project name and change the project location if needed.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%"> <img width="540" height="402" src="threadprocesssynchronizationapis11_files/winthreadprocesssynchronizationcode062.png" alt="Using Mutex Objects Program Example: Creating new Win32 empty cosnsole application project in Visual C++" /></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> Then, add the source file and give it a suitable name.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%"> <img width="540" height="399" src="threadprocesssynchronizationapis11_files/winthreadprocesssynchronizationcode063.png" alt="Using Mutex Objects Program Example: Adding new C++ source file to the existing Win32 project" /></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> Next, add the following source code.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;;color:blue">#include</span></font><font size="3" face="Courier New"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;"> <font color="#a31515"><span style="color:#A31515">&lt;windows.h&gt;</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;;color:blue">#include</span></font><font size="3" face="Courier New"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;"> <font color="#a31515"><span style="color:#A31515">&lt;stdio.h&gt;</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" color="#a31515" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;;color:#A31515">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;;color:blue">#define</span></font><font size="3" face="Courier New"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;"> THREADCOUNT 2</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">HANDLE ghMutex; </span></font> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">DWORD WINAPI WriteToDatabase(LPVOID);</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;;color:blue">void</span></font><font size="3" face="Courier New"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;"> wmain()</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">{</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; HANDLE aThread[THREADCOUNT];</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DWORD ThreadID;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">int</span></font> i;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DWORD Ret;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// Create a mutex with no initial owner</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ghMutex = CreateMutex( </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NULL,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// default security attributes</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FALSE,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// initially not owned</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NULL);&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// unnamed mutex</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" color="green" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;;color:green">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">if</span></font> (ghMutex == NULL) </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; wprintf(L<font color="#a31515"><span style="color:#A31515">&quot;CreateMutex() failed, error %d\n&quot;</span></font>, GetLastError());</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">return</span></font>;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">else</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; wprintf(L<font color="#a31515"><span style="color:#A31515">&quot;CreateMutex() is Ok\n&quot;</span></font>);</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// Create worker threads</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; wprintf(L<font color="#a31515"><span style="color:#A31515">&quot;Creating the worker threads...\n&quot;</span></font>);</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">for</span></font>( i=0; i &lt; THREADCOUNT; i++ )</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; aThread[i] = CreateThread( </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NULL,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"> <span style="color:green">// default security attributes</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"> <span style="color:green">// default stack size</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE) WriteToDatabase, </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NULL,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"> <span style="color:green">// no thread function arguments</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"> <span style="color:green">// default creation flags</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &amp;ThreadID); <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// receive thread identifier</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" color="green" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;;color:green">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">if</span></font>( aThread[i] == NULL )</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; wprintf(L<font color="#a31515"><span style="color:#A31515">&quot;CreateThread() failed, error: %d\n&quot;</span></font>, GetLastError());</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">return</span></font>;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">else</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; wprintf(L<font color="#a31515"><span style="color:#A31515">&quot;CreateThread() #%i is OK\n&quot;</span></font>, i);</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// Wait for all threads to terminate</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// WAIT_OBJECT_0, WAIT_ABANDONED_0, WAIT_TIMEOUT, WAIT_FAILED</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ret = WaitForMultipleObjects(THREADCOUNT, aThread, TRUE, INFINITE);</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; wprintf(L<font color="#a31515"><span style="color:#A31515">&quot;WaitForMultipleObjects() return value is %d\n&quot;</span></font>, Ret);</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// Close thread and mutex handles</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">for</span></font>( i=0; i &lt; THREADCOUNT; i++ )</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">if</span></font>(CloseHandle(aThread[i]) != 0)</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; wprintf(L<font color="#a31515"><span style="color:#A31515">&quot;Thread %d handle was successfully closed...\n&quot;</span></font>, GetCurrentThreadId());</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">else</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; wprintf(L<font color="#a31515"><span style="color:#A31515">&quot;Failed to close thread %d handle...\n&quot;</span></font>, GetCurrentThreadId());</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CloseHandle(ghMutex);</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">}</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">DWORD WINAPI WriteToDatabase(LPVOID lpParam )</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">{ </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DWORD dwCount=0, dwWaitResult; </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// Request ownership of mutex.</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">while</span></font>( dwCount &lt; 20 )</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; { </span> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dwWaitResult = WaitForSingleObject( </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ghMutex,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// handle to mutex</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; INFINITE);&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// no time-out interval</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">switch</span></font> (dwWaitResult) </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// The thread got ownership of the mutex</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">case</span></font> WAIT_OBJECT_0: </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">__try</span></font> { </span> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// TODO: Write to the database</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; wprintf(L<font color="#a31515"><span style="color:#A31515">&quot;Thread %d writing to database, count #%d\n&quot;</span></font>, GetCurrentThreadId(), dwCount);</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dwCount++;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; } </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">__finally</span></font> { </span> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// Release ownership of the mutex object</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">if</span></font> (! ReleaseMutex(ghMutex)) </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; { </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// Handle error.</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; } </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; } </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">break</span></font>; </span> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// The thread got ownership of an abandoned mutex</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="green"><span style="color:green">// The database is in an indeterminate state</span></font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">case</span></font> WAIT_ABANDONED: </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">return</span></font> FALSE; </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">return</span></font> TRUE; </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Courier New"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;">}</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> Build and run the project. 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