Break Free of Code Deadlocks in Critical Sections Under Windows

Regardless of the statistics, if you write code like this clearly you're balancing your program on a knife's edge. Sooner or later your program is apt to hit one of these four deadlock cases—perhaps due to new hardware your customer has purchased that you never used to test your software, or a context switch between two specific instructions resulting from a high-priority thread becoming runnable—

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