[ros-diffs] [ion] 14711: Remove bogus error message. It is normal for Mutex creation to fail since the Object will alredy exist after the first time it's created

[Joseph Galbraith]

Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
> Joseph Galbraith wrote:
> 
>> Ahh... I see the confusion;  I'll counter with another quote
>> from the platform SDK:
>>
>>   Return Values
>>
>>   If the function succeeds, the return value is a handle
>>   to the mutex object. If the named mutex object existed
>>   before the function call, the function returns a handle
>>   to the existing object and GetLastError returns
>>   ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS. Otherwise, the caller created the mutex.
>>
>>   If the function fails, the return value is NULL. To get
>>   extended error information, call GetLastError.
>>
>> If you read your quote carefully, you'll notice that it is
>> refering to existing events, semaphores, waitable timers, jobs,
>> or file-mapping objets... mutex is notably absent from the list.
>> The key is the last sentance:  "This occurs because these objects
>> [the ones listed] share the same name space [as mutex objects.]
>>
>> I do see now where the confusion comes from though; at first I was
>> just going to respond that the two pieces of platform SDK documentation
>> were in conflict, and the one I quoted is the behavior observed
>> experimentally... then I read carefully.
> 
> Thanks for clearing this up, I didn't read the entire documentation, 
> blame me. Maybe we should inform the MSDN team.

Sure, I'll report a PSDK documentation bug.

Thanks,

Joseph