Also note that none of the base container classes (CUtlVector for example) are thread safe.
- Alfred ----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Predatory Kangaroo Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 3:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Threaded plugin > The changes are pretty simple. > The differences are basically that a windows thread function is > defined as DWORD WINAPI threadFunc( LPVOID argument ) - if you're > ignoring the return value, there's almost no difference. > > The bigger difference is with mutexes - you create one with > CreateMutex, lock it with WaitForSingleObject, release it with > ReleaseMutex and destroy it with CloseHandle. > > For more indepth information on mutexes, see > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/createmutex.asp?fra me=true > For more indepth information on threads, see > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc /base/creating_threads.asp > > Oh, and if you have any functions that are going to send messages > within the thread, make sure you use a mutex to lock the MessageBegin > and MessageEnd functions - I managed to mess some stuff up that way > :) > > On 8/5/05, Ben Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -- > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > > http://www.hl2coding.com/article.php?article=3 > > > > On 8/5/05, Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I've developped a mysql plugin tu use with srcds. > > > Due to performance issues, I'd like to make some operations go > > > into another thread to avoid lag spikes... I've found a noob > > > tutorial for posix threads under linux, but how can I do same > > > thing under windows ? Or do it with a few code changes ? > > > And is there a sample for the CUtlVector class ? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Dede > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > > archives, please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > - Ben Davison > > - http://www.shadow-phoenix.com > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > archives, please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
