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-rw-r--r--win/tclWinNotify.c16
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 022b795..f843806 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2001-12-14 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+ * win/tclWinNotify.c (Tcl_FinalizeNotifier): Stop Tcl on Windows
+ from crashing when shutdown from a non-Tcl thread. Fixes Bug
+ #217982 [orig. 5804] reported by Hugh Vu and Gene Leache. I'm
+ not convinced that the shutdown process is right even with this,
+ but it was definitely wrong without...
+
2001-12-13 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
* win/tclWinSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc): Fix for tcl bug item
diff --git a/win/tclWinNotify.c b/win/tclWinNotify.c
index d788086..5df1e8d 100644
--- a/win/tclWinNotify.c
+++ b/win/tclWinNotify.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
* See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
* of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
*
- * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclWinNotify.c,v 1.9 2001/11/21 02:36:21 hobbs Exp $
+ * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclWinNotify.c,v 1.10 2001/12/14 10:32:47 dkf Exp $
*/
#include "tclWinInt.h"
@@ -147,6 +147,20 @@ Tcl_FinalizeNotifier(clientData)
{
ThreadSpecificData *tsdPtr = (ThreadSpecificData *) clientData;
+ /*
+ * Only finalize the notifier if a notifier was installed in the
+ * current thread; there is a route in which this is not
+ * guaranteed to be true (when tclWin32Dll.c:DllMain() is called
+ * with the flag DLL_PROCESS_DETACH by the OS, which could be
+ * doing so from a thread that's never previously been involved
+ * with Tcl, e.g. the task manager) so this check is important.
+ *
+ * Fixes Bug #217982 reported by Hugh Vu and Gene Leache.
+ */
+ if (tsdPtr == NULL) {
+ return;
+ }
+
DeleteCriticalSection(&tsdPtr->crit);
CloseHandle(tsdPtr->event);