Changeset 66120 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/include

Timestamp:

Mar 15, 2017 7:59:48 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

IPRT/RTThreadWait: Quick and dirty workaround for Ctrl-C deadlock with VirtualBox.exe.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/include/internal/thread.h (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/include/internal/thread.h

@@ -180 +180 @@
 DECLHIDDEN(void) rtThreadNativeDestroy(PRTTHREADINT pThread);
 
+#ifdef IN_RING3
+/**
+ * Called to check whether the thread is still alive or not before we start
+ * waiting.
+ *
+ * This is a kludge to deal with windows threads being killed wholesale in
+ * certain process termination scenarios and we don't want to hang the last
+ * thread because it's waiting on the semaphore of a dead thread.
+ *
+ * @returns true if alive, false if not.
+ * @param   pThread         The thread structure.
+ */
+DECLHIDDEN(bool) rtThreadNativeIsAliveKludge(PRTTHREADINT pThread);
+#endif
+
 #ifdef IN_RING0
 /**