DB Library for C
Threads in the Win32 API
The multithreaded process structure of the Microsoft® Win32® API opens up powerful and elegant solutions to high-end applications. Each thread within a process has its own stack and computer state. On multiprocessor systems with the Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 operating system, multiple threads can execute at the same time but on different processors. Applications that need to perform intensive processing, I/O, and so on, can do this in the background using threads and still offer a responsive user interface.
Using DB-Library in a Threaded Application
Here are a few tips to be aware of when creating a threaded DB-Library application:
- Make sure you call the dbinit and dbexit functions only one time on your application.
- Make sure to use per process error and message handling.
- If you use global error and message handlers, you may need to synchronize access in your error and message handler routines.
- Make sure to call dbsetmaxprocs if you are going to have more than 25 connections open.
- Make sure you are compiling/linking with the multithreaded C/C++ run-time libraries. By default, a Microsoft® Visual C/C++® project is linked with the single threaded run-time libraries.
- If you use the same LOGINREC to open multiple connections, access to the LOGINREC must be serialized.