Subject: [PATCH] win32: close handles of threads that have been joined

From: "Rose via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:34:36 +0000

From: Seija Kijin <[email-masked]>

After joining threads, the handle to the original thread
should be closed as it no longer needs to be open.

Signed-off-by: Seija Kijin <[email-masked]>
---
    win32: close handles of threads that have been joined
    
    After joining threads, the handle to the original thread should be
    closed as it no longer needs to be open.
    
    Signed-off-by: Seija Kijin [email-masked]

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1406%2FAtariDreams%2Fjoin-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1406/AtariDreams/join-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1406

 compat/win32/pthread.c | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compat/win32/pthread.c b/compat/win32/pthread.c
index 2e7eead42cb..de89667ef70 100644
--- a/compat/win32/pthread.c
+++ b/compat/win32/pthread.c
@@ -39,14 +39,20 @@ int win32_pthread_join(pthread_t *thread, void **value_ptr)
 {
 	DWORD result = WaitForSingleObject(thread->handle, INFINITE);
 	switch (result) {
-		case WAIT_OBJECT_0:
-			if (value_ptr)
-				*value_ptr = thread->arg;
-			return 0;
-		case WAIT_ABANDONED:
-			return EINVAL;
-		default:
-			return err_win_to_posix(GetLastError());
+	case WAIT_OBJECT_0:
+		if (value_ptr)
+			*value_ptr = thread->arg;
+		/* detach the thread once the join succeeds */
+		CloseHandle(thread->handle);
+		return 0;
+	case WAIT_ABANDONED:
+		/* either thread is not joinable or another thread is waiting on
+		 * this, so we do not detatch */
+		return EINVAL;
+	default:
+	case WAIT_FAILED:
+		/* the function failed so we do not detach */
+		return err_win_to_posix(GetLastError());
 	}
 }

base-commit: 7c2ef319c52c4997256f5807564523dfd4acdfc7
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