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24.3.50; Emacs lockup when idle

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From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 12832 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, fni <at> missioncriticalit.com, dmoncayo <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#12832: 24.3.50; Emacs lockup when idle
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:40:29 +0000

On 13/11/2012 16:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:00:30 +0000
>> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
>> CC: dmoncayo <at> gmail.com, fni <at> missioncriticalit.com, 12832 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> The fact that thread 236140 is at ThreadStartRoutine makes me wonder if this
>> is related to the perils of DllMain (i.e. the loader lock).
>
> Sorry, I don't follow.  Can you say more about this problem, or point
> me to some accessible documentation about it?

The DllMain notifications for process and thread create/destroy are called 
with the (system internal) loader lock held. This means that anything called 
from these routines should not use locks, or deadlock is possible. So I was 
wondering if the thread manipulation for timer handling is interacting with 
those mechanisms.

Of course I don't know nearly enough about Win32 to actually say much useful 
here, so the actual problem is probably something else entirely.

    AndyM

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