If the mutex is a named mutex and the object existed before this function call, the return value is a handle to the existing object, GetLastError returns ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS

Best regards,

Alex Ionescu

On 17-Sep-07, at 10:41 PM, silverblade@svn.reactos.org wrote:

+ device_list_mutex = CreateMutex(NULL, FALSE, DEVICE_LIST_MUTEX_NAME);

+ if ( ! device_list_mutex)

+ {