CreateThread timing behaviour (Bug 15323 affecting Warhammer Online)

[Paul TBBle Hampson]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:51:06AM +0200, Pauli Nieminen wrote:
> There seems to be at least partial synchronization for dll loading but
> threading part doesn't include this lock. It seems like wine doesn't
> need it so maybe it is enough to just simulate windows with following
> small patch.

> disclaimer: I didn't test this so might not be complete solution. If
> it isn't enough then you could try add lock calls to create thread and
> exit thread paths too.

[patch]

This just caused all the threads and processes to fail to start, locking
on the main process or something.

I'll play with this further if I have time, barring further comment on
this thread, see if I can confirm that the behaviour I'm seeing is due
to the code I'm looking at being somehow inside the dll attach code.

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