Is 'Mutex' the only machine-wide sync mechanism?

[David Sworder]

Hi there,

I'm looking for something like a ReaderWriterLock, but machine-specific
instead of process-specific. Does such a class exist? I can think of various
ways to roll my own but am reluctant to do so if there is already a .NET
class that accomplishes this.

David

[Roy Fine]

David,

it is the only atomic kernel based object that has machine scope.

regards
roy fine
"David Sworder" <Gi********@CSILasVegas.com> wrote in message
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Hi there,

I'm looking for something like a ReaderWriterLock, but machine-specific instead of process-specific. Does such a class exist? I can think of various ways to roll my own but am reluctant to do so if there is already a .NET
class that accomplishes this.

David

[William Stacey [MVP]]

You can wrap the Win32 events and semaphore objects pretty easy. Naturally,
the sync locks are one thing, you still need a shared memory area like a
Memory Mapped File (or other IPC) to share the data your protecting (unless
your using a file or something.)

--
William Stacey, MVP

"David Sworder" <Gi********@CSILasVegas.com> wrote in message
news:#T**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Hi there,

I'm looking for something like a ReaderWriterLock, but machine-specific instead of process-specific. Does such a class exist? I can think of various ways to roll my own but am reluctant to do so if there is already a .NET
class that accomplishes this.

David