Re: [ros-dev] Race Condition?

[Alex Ionescu]

Eric Kohl wrote:

>  "Hartmut Birr" <hartmut.birr(a)gmx.de>
> wrote:
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> >  I would like if you can commit this changes or can
> > send me a diff. The
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> race
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> >  condition between the two locks is one of the
> > major problems on smp
> > machines. An other problem is the registry. Some registry functions are
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> not
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> >  thread safe, which results in wrong values and
> > very often in a crash.
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> >  
> Which registry functions are not thread-safe?
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>
> 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