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Asked: 2026-05-16T08:54:28+00:00

// locks a critical section, and unlocks it automatically // when the lock goes

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// locks a critical section, and unlocks it automatically
// when the lock goes out of scope
CAutoLock(CCritSec * plock)

The above is from wxutil.h, does it lock the access of different process , or just locks different threads in the same process?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just across threads. From the doc of CAutoLock:

    The CAutoLock constructor locks the critical section, …

    and CCritSec:

    The CCritSec class provides a thread lock.

    More explicitly, from the description of Critical Section Objects:

    A critical section object provides synchronization similar to that provided by a mutex object, except that a critical section can be used only by the threads of a single process.

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