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say you have a thread that is constantly checking the state of a variable in 2 ms intervals
volatile int var = 0;
while(true){
if(var == 1)
break;
Sleep(2);
}
you have another thread thats overwriting this variable to 1 in an external process/thread but setting it back to 0 once its complete with its process and this process takes 1 ms.
if this second thread never gets interrupted in anyway (like with an APC) will the first thread ever catch the second thread modifying this variable?
if the cpu only has 1 thread this would be impossible, but on a processor with multiple parallel threads is this likely?
