RE: [Ikvm-developers] WFC classes

[Lisbeth K. <lis...@ap...>]

Windows has this overly-elaborate apartment threading model to overcome
the fact that Windows using the Intel processor doesn't provide hardware
memory protection.  In a normal process/thread environment, a process
encompasses one or more threads using a process-bound memory space.  In
Windows the process is replaced by the 'apartment'.  An apartment is a
logical grouping of threads that ought to use the same memory space
except that there is no memory protection and by crossing into other
memory spaces, you can crash Windows.  In this Windows model
inter-process communication is replaced with inter-apartment call
marshalling.

My question is how do threads in IKVM interact with the Windows
apartment threading model?

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Lisbeth Kellogg
Office: 651-675-2610
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeroen Frijters [mailto:je...@su...] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:47 PM
To: Lisbeth Kellogg; ikv...@li...
Subject: RE: [Ikvm-developers] WFC classes


Lisbeth Kellogg wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how IKVM behaves under the Windows threading model?

What exactly do you mean by this?

Regards,
Jeroen