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to: Keith Bennett
from: Mark Kimes
date: 1994-08-31 07:59:30
subject: Re: _beginthread() data ptr question

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?

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

 KB>And therefore, that I should probably use a static int array?

Not necessarily (though it could be a suitable method for a given task).
You can allocate the data and let the thread free it, for example.
There's a large arsenal out there.

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