Re: [Patch] Fix gethwnd race

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:40:35PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>On Fri, 14 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:59:42AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>> >I'll cook up a muto based solution in the next few minutes now
>> >that I understand your preference.  But, I'd like an opinion on the
>> >question above.
>>
>> Thanks very much for the offer, but please don't bother.
>
>Ok, good.  I got sucked into an unscheduled meeting anyway.
>
>> I took this opportunity to do some of the cleanup that I was talking
>> about.  I also implemented a "close handle on final use" option to mutos
>> so that the event doesn't stay around after the final thread releases
>> it.
>
>That sounds like a nice, but difficult to get right enhancement.
>
>> I need to do a little debugging on what I have but it does try to clean
>> up the windows code slightly.  I even eliminated the thread event
>> synchronization entirely.
>
>I tried to do that but got stuck when I discovered you can't pass the
>return from CreateWindow in one thread to the GetMessage call in another.
>
>I look forward to seeing what you did and learning from it.  Thanks.

Well, maybe I didn't do anything, since that is exactly what I did after
investigating MSDN.  I thought I remembered that this was the case but
I couldn't see anything in MSDN which supported it.  I suppose I should
just have trusted Sergey on this one.

So, nevermind on this wonderful enhancement.

cgf