Re: [ros-dev] Race Condition?

[Alex Ionescu]

Eric Kohl wrote:
> "Hartmut Birr" [e-mail] wrote:
> > I would like if you can commit this changes or can send me a diff. The
>
> race
> > condition between the two locks is one of the major problems on smp
> > machines. An other problem is the registry. Some registry functions are
>
> not
> > thread safe, which results in wrong values and very often in a crash.
>
> Which registry functions are not thread-safe?
>
> Regards,
> Eric
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Hi Eric,

AFAIK none of them are thread-safe...what I've seen on windows is that a 
caller of a registry function usually uses a special registry lock 
before accessing it. The functions themselves are not thread-safe.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu