LeaveCriticalSection

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Relinquishes the current thread's ownership of a critical section (shared critical resource). Once ownership is relinquished, access to the critical section is available to the next thread that requests it (using the EnterCriticalSection() function). If a thread has been waiting for access, it will be granted at this point.

LeaveCriticalSection() needs to be called once for each EnterCriticalSection() used.

Note: This function is process-based, not computer-based, and so will only prevent access to a critical section within a single process. This function only works between Cicode tasks within the same process.

Syntax

LeaveCriticalSection(sName)

sName:

The name of the critical section. The name needs to be entered in quotation marks.

Return Value

This function does not return a value.

Related Functions

EnterCriticalSection

Example

/* Request access to critical section, execute code and relinquish 
ownership of critical section. */

FUNCTION

MyCriticalFunction()

	EnterCriticalSection("MyCritical");

	// critical code is placed here

	LeaveCriticalSection("MyCritical");

END