The Old New Thing

A quick puzzle about security and synchronization

June 6, 2005 Jun 6, 2005 06/6/05

Raymond Chen

This quick puzzle floated past one of our internal discussion groups. In Process B, the succeeds, but the returns immediately instead of waiting. Explain. [Correction: I confused the matter by passing as the third parameter, thereby creating an event that is initially signalled. Change it to so that the event is created non-...