[ros-dev] Race Condition?

[Alex Ionescu]

Eric Kohl wrote:

>"Hartmut Birr" <hartmut.birr at 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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>>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