CoInitialize

Ove Kaaven ovehk at ping.uio.no
Tue Nov 19 10:19:27 CST 2002


On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 steve.lustbader at philips.com wrote:

> 
> 
> >> On 13 Nov 2002 at 14:39, steve.lustbader at philips.com wrote:
> >>
> >> > One of the threads in my app calls CoInitialize, expecting it
> >> > to return S_OK (in fact, it's followed by an assert statement
> >> > requiring that it returns S_OK).  When I run it in Wine, however,
> >> > CoInitialize returns S_FALSE, implying that this thread has
> >> > already initialized the COM library.  Other threads call
> >> > CoInitialize, but this is the first time that this thread calls it.
> >> > Does Wine initialize COM differently from Windows?  Are the other
> >> > threads' calls to CoInitialize screwing up this thread's call?
> >
> >Sort of, the problem is that Wine doesn't support apartments yet, so it
> >doesn't try to keep track of the threads that has called CoInitialize.
> >
> 
> Does this mean that COM isn't being initialized properly for the calling
> thread, or only that it appears not to be initialized properly?

Depends on what you mean by "initialized properly". COM functions still
works, but only in a process-wide fashion, oblivious to which thread calls
them.




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