Re: critical section blocking

[Duane Clark]

Aric Stewart wrote:
> Working with QuickTime5 I found a situation where mouse messages could
> lockup wine. This leaving and entering the critical section resolves
> that bug.
>
> -aric
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Index: windows/message.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/wine/wine/windows/message.c,v

With this patch, Myst locks up solid as soon as the mouse is moved into
the Myst window. Without it, Myst works fine.

Duane

critical section blocking

[Me]

> With this patch, Myst locks up solid as soon as the mouse is moved into
> the Myst window. Without it, Myst works fine.
> Same with Red Alert, except without the patch the mouse would eventually lock 
> up, instead of right away with this patch. The bug is actually there, and 
> it's really annoying, but the fix is wrong.

-Ryan

critical section blocking

[Aric Stewart]

Hum, ok thank for pointing out that my fix does not work. I will
continue to try to investigate more, and see if i can find another fix
or understand the problem more completely. 

thanks
-aric

Me wrote:
> > With this patch, Myst locks up solid as soon as the mouse is moved into
> > the Myst window. Without it, Myst works fine.
> > Same with Red Alert, except without the patch the mouse would eventually lock
> > up, instead of right away with this patch. The bug is actually there, and
> > it's really annoying, but the fix is wrong.
>
> -Ryan