Re: [ros-dev] Alex has fixed the laptop problem

[Thomas Weidenmueller]

Hartmut Birr wrote:

>   Hi,
>
> I think your patch isn't correct. The parsing routine from an object
> must always reference the returned object because an other thread may
> try to remove this object. Since a long time I'm searching for a bug
> which corrupts the registry and which crashs ros on my smp machine. It
> was always triggered by the font substitution query routine from win32k.
> I've added a missing locking operation and moved the referencing into
> the locked region. This fixes my smp crash and may also fix James
> problem. My test condition is compiling ros on ros in one console and
> running ctm in an other one.   
>
> - Hartmut
>   
>  
I did some more investigation and your patch looks better indeed more 
correct, haven't tried it myself though. I'll tell alex to revert my 
changes from his branch.

Best Regards,
Thomas