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# re: Converting System.Threading.WaitHandle.Handle to System.Threading.WaitHandle.SafeWaitHandle

I would like to thank you for your post. I was trying to update a DirectSound example and ran into this problem. Your solution seemed to do the trick.

Thomas Patten

# re: Converting System.Threading.WaitHandle.Handle to System.Threading.WaitHandle.SafeWaitHandle

you're welcome.

# re: Converting System.Threading.WaitHandle.Handle to System.Threading.WaitHandle.SafeWaitHandle

Hello,

May I ask if using the .SafeWaitHandle.DangerousGetHandle would release the handle of the AutoResetEvent?

I have a problem of doing this piece of code:
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For my main Program.cs:
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for (int i = 0; i < JobNumber; i++)
{
doneEvents[i] = new AutoResetEvent(false);
if (i + 1 == JobNumber) jobqueue = true;
JobProcess f = new JobProcess(r.Next(20, 40), doneEvents[i], jobqueue);
arrJob[i] = f;
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(f.ThreadPoolCallback, i);

}

WaitHandle.WaitAll(doneEvents);
Console.WriteLine("Process stops here");
...

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For my calling class JobProcess.cs:
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public void ThreadPoolCallback(Object threadContext)
{ int threadIndex = (int)threadContext;
Console.WriteLine("job thread {0} started... at n:{1}", threadIndex, _n);
_JobN = Calculate(_n);
Console.WriteLine("job thread {0} result calculated...", threadIndex);
/*_doneEvent.Set(); */
if (_endOfJobQueue == true)
{ _doneEvent.SafeWaitHandle.SetHandleAsInvalid();
_doneEvent.SafeWaitHandle.DangerousGetHandle();
//SafeWaitHandle.DangerousRelease();
Console.WriteLine(" is closed?: " + _doneEvent.SafeWaitHandle.IsClosed.ToString() +
"\r\n timeout:" + WaitHandle.WaitTimeout.ToString());
}
else{
_doneEvent.WaitOne();
}
}


What I am trying to do is to set QueueUserWorkItem to run the ThreadPoolCallback in such a way I will do synchronization. But the problem when I run my code. It never reached the Console.WriteLine("Process stops here")


where as if I comment the
if (_endOfJobQueue == true)
{ ... }
else{
_doneEvent.WaitOne();
}

and replaced is by just _doneEvent.Set(); It works and it reaches the Console.WriteLine("Process stops here") but the synchronization of the _doneEvent is not observed.

What I want to attain is how to release, or perhaps signal the WaitHandle.WaitAll() that there is nothing more to wait but proceed to exit and close the thread queue.

Thank You.

# re: Converting System.Threading.WaitHandle.Handle to System.Threading.WaitHandle.SafeWaitHandle

no idea on that one Jan.
look with reflector what it does under the hood.

# re: Converting System.Threading.WaitHandle.Handle to System.Threading.WaitHandle.SafeWaitHandle

You can use the SafeWaitHandle.DangerousGetHandle method. So your code will look like this:


wo.hEvent = writeEvent.SafeWaitHandle.DangerousGetHandle();



If you want to know why, please read this blog from Brian Grunkemeyer: SafeHandle: A Reliability Case Study.

http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2005/03/16/396900.aspx