In a multi threaded application, is there a way to ensure that a Critical Section is initialized only once except for putting the code in DLL main() ??
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I’d suggest wrapping the CRITICAL_SECTION with a class that will handle the initialization and uninitialization of the critical section object in its constructor and destructor. This way, you’ll be thread safe in most cases. (You’ll have to make sure no one accesses the object before its constructor completes, but that’s relatively easy.)
There are several common wrappers for CRITICAL_SECTION you can use. MFC’s CCriticalSection is the obvious choice, but you can create your own as well.