Re: What causes "Too many posts were made to a semaphore"?
From: Jochen Kalmbach (nospam-Jochen.Kalmbach_at_holzma.de)
Date: 02/29/04
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Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:09:56 -0800
Peter Steele wrote:
> Error no. 298, Too many posts were made to a semaphore.
>
> on a call to WaitForSingleObject(). This is happening on a Windows 2000
> system. What might be causing this failure?
The following code will produce this error:
HANDLE hSem = CreateSemaphore(NULL, 0, 10, NULL);
BOOL bRet = ReleaseSemaphore(hSem, 11, NULL);
DWORD gle = GetLastError(); // => 298
As you can see the max value in the "Create" was 10,
Now we released with 11; which is greater than 10...
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