The Old New Thing

Partially eliminating the need for SetThreadpoolCallbackLibrary and reducing the cost of FreeLibraryAndExitThread

November 7, 2013 Nov 7, 2013 11/7/13

Raymond Chen

Update: Daniel points out that there is still a race condition here, so this trick won't work. Rats. The documentation for the says This prevents a deadlock from occurring when one thread in DllMain is waiting for the callback to end, and another thread that is executing the callback attempts to acquire the loader lock. If the DLL ...