Question

I have a thread running in my application. Inside the thread I am waiting on an auto reset event to exit. I want to make sure that i close the handle of the event after i use it. Ihave two options.

1. Calling CloseHandle of the event immediately after calling SetEvent
2. Calling CloseHandle after the line WaitForSingleObject

Please suggest me which one is the right approach.

Answer 1

Calling CloseHandle after SetEvent doesn’t make sense to me. You should (if required) call CloseHandle after WaitForSingleObject only.