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<concept id="GUID-4C406E49-7726-5620-AAAA-84C33DADAF4B" xml:lang="en"><title>Opening

a handle to an existing global Kernel object</title><shortdesc>This document describes how to find a global kernel object by using

a handle.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<p>A handle can be opened on an existing global Kernel object.</p>

<p>Global Kernel objects are explicitly named by their creators; the technique

for finding these objects involves using a search pattern to search for objects

with matching full names. The <codeph>TFindHandleBase</codeph> provides the

basic behavior.</p>

<p>In practice, each specific type has its own class derived from <codeph>TFindHandleBase</codeph>,

for example, semaphores have <codeph>TFindSemaphore</codeph>, mutexes have <codeph>TFindMutex</codeph> and

so on.</p>

<p>For example, the following code fragment searches for the first global

semaphore whose full name ends with the characters "day" and opens a thread-relative

handle on that semaphore:</p>

<codeblock id="GUID-C1C801A9-4B15-5369-8007-17BB7DC3E0A9" xml:space="preserve">_LIT(KDay,"*day");

...

TFindSemaphore finder(KDay);       // derived from TFindHandleBase

TFullName      theName;

RSemaphore     theSem;             // derived from RHandleBase

...

if ((finder.Next(thename))==KErrNone)

    {

       theSem.Open(finder,EOwnerThread);

       ...

       }

...

</codeblock>