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What does INIT_ONCE_CTX_RESERVED_BITS mean?

April 20, 2012 Apr 20, 2012 04/20/12

Raymond Chen

Windows Vista adds the One-Time Initialization family of functions which address a common coding pattern: I want a specific chunk of code to run exactly once, even in the face of multiple calls from different threads. There are many implementations of this pattern, such as the infamous double-checked lock. The double-checked lock is very ...