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<h1 class="topictitle1">One-time initialization and thread safety</h1>
<div><p>At times, you might want to defer the initialization of resources
until a thread requires them. However, your application might require that
multiple threads use a certain resource, which requires you to initialize
the resource only once in a threadsafe way.</p>
<p>There are several ways you can initialize a resource that is used multiple
times in a threadsafe fashion. Most of these methods involve a Boolean
value to allow the application to quickly determine whether the required initialization
is completed. You must also use a synchronization technique in addition to
the Boolean flag to ensure that the initialization completed.</p>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzahwe15rx.htm">Example: One-time initialization in Pthread programs</a></strong><br />
This example shows a Pthread program that is dynamically initializing an integer using the Pthread one time initialization support.</li>
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