On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> That's ok, because the FHandle is information which is retrieved in the > context of the calling thread (e.g. the main thread). And if we don't need > any more information about the thread we just close it's handle (equivalent > to CloseThread) and be done with it. EndThread on the other hand is called > in the context of the called thread. > > Afterall you also normally close the thread handle which you get returned > by a CreateProcess(?) call, but keep the process handle around. > > With CloseHandle (and the semantically equal CloseThread) you just tell > the system that you don't plan to interact with the object that the handle > references (in this case a thread) anymore. Make sense, got it. Thank you.
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