KB>So, am I correct in assuming that in this situation I must
 KB>absolutely guarantee that this memory will be used exclusively by
 KB>that thread for as long as the thread might need it?

MK>Yep, or at least long enough to be copied, which can be accomplished by
MK>passing a pointer to a structure containing a pointer to a semaphore
MK>member which the thread posts after copying, for example.  The semaphore
MK>could also be global or named(/shared), depending on the circumstances.

   Only if the design of the application requires that the thread read/copy
the data before it's modified.  The application I'm working on at the
moment requires that multiple threads share a memory region for setting
control flags.  It works perfectly (well no bugs are caused by this anyway
;-).


   cya
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