This works by using semi-documented[1] exception to tell the debugger
that a thread needs to have its name changed.
If this exception is not caught and handled by something, it will crash
the process, so we need to set up our own handler in case there's no
debugger attached or the debugger can't handle this type of exception.
Since SEH is not supported by gcc on i686 (at the moment), we need to use VEH
instead. For completeness the MSVC-oriented code still uses SEH, although
there is no reason why it shouldn't work with the VEH variant used by MinGW.
VEH handler has to be set up somewhere (g_thread_win32_init () works nicely)
and removed once it's not needed (g_thread_win32_process_detach () is added
expressly for that purpose). Note that g_thread_win32_process_detach() is
only called when glib is unloaded by FreeLibrary(), not when glib-using
process is terminating.
This exception is known to work with WinDbg, and adding support for it into
GDB proved to be feasible (GDB patch will be sent upstream, eventually).
[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xcb2z8hs%28v=vs.71%29.aspxhttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747478
This reverts commits dfbac178bd and
56348210f3.
These two commits introduce undesirable behaviour and were made with no
apparent approval from anybody at all, and without reference to a bug or
mailing list discussion.
When removing an item from the list, check the next one's my_owner,
and fix it accordingly. And take this case into account when last
of the list is deleted.
Also, assign NULL to 'my_owner' in g_thread_xp_WakeConditionVariable.
There are some races in the condition variable emulation code for
Windows XP with respect to timeouts while waiting.
First, in the event of a timeout, we never remove the waiter from the
condition variable. This can cause crashes later. That problem was
found by Rodrigo Rivas Costa.
Second, if the waiting thread times out and exits just as we were about
to call SetEvent() on its waiter event, we could end up trying to access
the waiter after it was closed/freed. We need to hold on to the lock a
little bit longer to ensure that that's not possible.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666551
This was turning all the GLIB_VARs in the glib headers into
dllexports on windows, causing all sort of nastiness. libgthread is
mostly empty now anyway, so we don't need any GLIB_COMPILATION like
flag.
Switch GCond to using monotonic time for timed waits by introducing a
new API based on monotonic time in a gint64: g_cond_wait_until().
Deprecate the old API based on wallclock time in a GTimeVal.
Fix up the gtk-doc for GCond while we're at it: update the examples to
use static-allocated GCond and GMutex and clarify some things a bit.
Also explain the rationale behind using an absolute time instead of a
relative time.
Merge the GThreadData with the GThreadWin32 struct. Drop the extra TLS
variable.
Close the handle on _free(), which means that there is no leak if
g_system_thread_join() isn't called.
Remove all internal concept of joinability.
Add g_system_thread_new() and g_system_thread_free(), implemented with
GSlice. Use those instead of g_new() and g_free().
Presently, the backends are both doing the same thing. This will change
soon.
Instead of running the GPrivate destructors from our thread proxy code,
run it from the DllMain handler for the DLL_THREAD_DETACH case.
This should ensure that thread-local data is free at the exit of all
threads -- not just the ones we created for ourselves.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660745
Add a little bit more room in the ABI for our synchronisation primatives
since we're going to need it when we add native implementations on
Linux.
Also: rename the pointer field and add /*< private >*/ annotations.
All locks are now zero-initialised, so we can drop the G_*_INIT macros
for them.
Adjust various users around GLib accordingly and change the docs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659866
Take out the half-private g_private_init() stuff and replace it with a
G_PRIVATE_INIT macro that allows specifying a GDestroyNotify.
Expose the GPrivate structure in a public header.
Add a g_private_replace() to (sort of) match the functionality of
g_static_mutex_set().
Improve the documentation.
Deprecate g_private_new().
We lack SRWLock on Windows XP, so we use CRITICAL_SECTION to emulate it
there. SRWLock is non-recursive, but CRITICAL_SECTION will happily
allow itself to be acquired multiple times by the same thread.
We need to detect if our second acquire succeeded because of the
recursive nature of CRITICAL_SECTION. In the case of a _lock()
operation, we would normally have deadlocked, so abort. In the case of
a _trylock() operation, we need to ensure that FALSE is properly
returned.
Problem caught by Matthias Clasen and Chun-wei Fan.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660096
Switch 'self' 'join' and 'create' from using the vtable to being called
via normal g_system_thread_* internal API (implemented in each of
gthread-{posix,win32}.c).
Again, we can put NULL in the vtable since these were never used from
gthread.h.
Thread priorities were already documented as not working on Solaris, and
they are meaningless on Linux unless the process separately requests
realtime scheduling (and even then, it appears only to work as root).
We can safely put a NULL into the vtable for set_priority since nothing
outside of gthread.c ever calls this (and that call is gone).
