On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 12:29:14AM +0200, Pauli Nieminen wrote: > Msdn sayes: > "The ExitProcess, ExitThread, CreateThread, CreateRemoteThread > functions, and a process that is starting (as the result of a call by > CreateProcess) are serialized between each other within a process. > Only one of these events can happen in an address space at a time. > This means that the following restrictions hold:
> * During process startup and DLL initialization routines, new > threads can be created, but they do not begin execution until DLL > initialization is done for the process. > * Only one thread in a process can be in a DLL initialization or > detach routine at a time. > * ExitProcess does not complete until there are no threads in > their DLL initialization or detach routines." > So maybe this hidden synchronization is causing also newly created > thread not to run until CreateThread has exited. How would I know if one of these was the case? 'cause if that's what's going on, it'd explain the problem quite neatly. I should mention that the actual code being run here is inside a dll file (libpatchui.dll) not the main warpatch.bin. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, B.Sc, LPI, MCSE Very-later-year Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) paul.hamp...@pobox.com Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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