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Re: spinlock class?

Christopher Faylor wrote:

But why not just use a critical section?  It's roughly the same thing,
isn't it?


If you're talking about the WIN32 CriticalSection functions, I don't know
WIN32 well enough to be aware of all the subtleties.  I am locking a
large array that gets duplicated by a fork() and I did not want to run
into any inheritance problems with WIN32 objects.
--
Joe Buehler

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