Re: CreateThread fail in Win98

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Unfortunately, Win9x remark has been removed from the last argument
description. I suppose MSDN doesn't support Win9x anymore.

WIn2003 SDK has the following:

lpThreadId
[out] Pointer to a variable that receives the thread identifier. If this
parameter is NULL, the thread identifier is not returned.

Windows Me/98/95: This parameter may not be NULL.



<dim.raft@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2011f245-dd03-413b-9408-c5dad86a950a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Alexander,

Thank you for your response but I'm a bit confused.

Are you saying that the you know the reason, and that it is documented
in the SDK? or that the SDK is just somewhere I should look?

I can assure you that I have examined the article on CreateThread() in
MSDN in depth prior to posting on this forum. I did not see anything
that related directly to my problem.

If you can tell me which exact line I should be looking at in the
doco, it would be appreciated.

Dimitri

On Aug 3, 11:23 am, "Alexander Grigoriev" <al...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Check CreateThread documentation in SDK.

You'll find there an exact reason why it failed.

<dim.r...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Hi,

I have an existing program that creates a thread as follows:
hThread = CreateThread( NULL,
0,
ThreadFunc,
NULL,
0,
NULL);
if (hThread == NULL)
{
int nErrorCode = GetLastError();
MessageBox(NULL, "Error Creating Thread", "", MB_OK);
}

The code is in a dll, and it has worked fine for most of my customers
which are running XP and Vista.
A new customer is running Win98 and they are getting the error "Error
Creating Thread", which based on my code means that hThread is NULL.

I used GetLastError() to get the error and it was 87:
ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER.
My customer is not local, and I do not have access to a computer
running Windows 98 to see if this is a general problem with my code on
Win98, or a specific issue with my customers machine.

There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with my call to
CreateThread, it's all pretty standard stuff, and like I said, it
works fine on XP and vista.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is happening, and how I
can fix it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.



.

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