Intermittent failures retrieving process exit codes - snapshot test requested

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 12:53:11PM -0800, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>On 1/2/13 12:48 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I managed to duplicate a hang by really stressing ctrl-c a loop.  It
>> uncovers some rather amazing Windows behavior which I have to think
>> about.  Apparently ExitThread can be called recursively within the
>> thread that Windows creates to handle CTRL-C.
>
>What do you mean? ExitThread should never return, and I can't
>imagine anything on the thread termination path calling ExitThread
>again, especially not once the thread jumps to kernel mode.

Sorry, I was just speculating about what it looked like.  I'm
still debugging the problem.

cgf

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