Incrementing Semaphores on process termination

[nrieger]

Hi,

I'm using several semaphores (max val 1) for IPC:

hnd = CreateSemaphore (NULL, 1, 1, "SEM-1");
....
result = WaitForSingleObject(hnd, INFINITE);

If a process is killed or stopped while it holds the semaphore (val=0), the
semaphore is not incremented by Windows (process cleanup ?).

Doesn't windows cleanup (increment semaphore by process' descrements) on
process termination ?

I'm using Windows XP, 2000, 2003 Server, each process is a "console
Application" developed with VC++ 6.0.
Each assistance is welcome and appreciated.
Thanx a lot.

[Terrence]

If you need to know that a process was terminated, get the HANDLE for the
process and use that to wait.

Instead of using a semaphore with count 1, use a mutex, because
WAIT_ABANDONED will be returned in the event that the mutex-holder is
terminated.

A semaphore is not "held" like a mutex is held. It is just a
waitable-atomic-counter.

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[nrieger]

Thanx a lot,
I changed from semaphore to mutex. Works fine, thanx a lot.
I thought mutex is only used for thread sync (like critical sections),
didn't know
that they can be used across processes.