[ros-dev] Kernel32 race condition

[Ge van Geldorp]

> From: Alex Ionescu
> 
> I have some loader fixes which handle serialization and fix 
> similar race conditions. If you look on my blog, you can see 
> the timeframe for when I plan to commit them... if you're not 
> going to submit the shutdown code until then, then you can 
> probably consider this issue fixed and work on other 
> problems. Of course, if you prefer, you can write a quick 
> hack if you need this working now :)

I had promised TwoTailedFox to commit my shutdown work this week. The race
condition only results in a usermode exception, terminating the thread.
Since the process was going to exit anyway, it's not really a big deal and
doesn't block my progress. The reason I brought it up was that race
conditions like this are generally hard to reproduce, so when I do hit a
reproducible case I tend to start fixing it before moving on.
So, in this case I'll continue on the shutdown stuff and commit it this
week, leaving the kernel32 issue to you.

GvG