From: Seija Kijin <redacted>

Use _beginthreadex instead of CreateThread
since we use the Windows CRT,
as Microsoft recommends _beginthreadex
over CreateThread for these situations.

Finally, check for NULL handles, not "INVALID_HANDLE,"
as _beginthreadex guarantees a valid handle in most cases

Signed-off-by: Seija Kijin <redacted>
---
    win32: fix thread usage for win32
    
    Use pthread_exit instead of async_exit.
    
    This means we do not have to deal with Windows's implementation
    requiring an unsigned exit coded despite the POSIX exit code requiring a
    signed exit code.
    
    Use _beginthreadex instead of CreateThread since we use the Windows CRT.
    
    Finally, check for NULL handles, not "INVALID_HANDLE," as _beginthreadex
    guarantees a valid handle in most cases
    
    Signed-off-by: Seija Kijin doremylover123@gmail.com

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1440%2FAtariDreams%2FCreateThread-v4
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1440/AtariDreams/CreateThread-v4
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1440

Range-diff vs v3:

 1:  68baafba2bd ! 1:  2e2d5ce7745 win32: fix thread usage for win32
     @@ Commit message
      
          Signed-off-by: Seija Kijin [off-list ref]
      
     - ## compat/mingw.c ##
     -@@ compat/mingw.c: static int start_timer_thread(void)
     - 	timer_event = CreateEvent(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL);
     - 	if (timer_event) {
     - 		timer_thread = (HANDLE) _beginthreadex(NULL, 0, ticktack, NULL, 0, NULL);
     --		if (!timer_thread )
     -+		if (!timer_thread)
     - 			return errno = ENOMEM,
     - 				error("cannot start timer thread");
     - 	} else
     -
       ## compat/winansi.c ##
      @@ compat/winansi.c: enum {
       	TEXT = 0, ESCAPE = 033, BRACKET = '['


 compat/winansi.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compat/winansi.c b/compat/winansi.c
index 3abe8dd5a27..be65b27bd75 100644
--- a/compat/winansi.c
+++ b/compat/winansi.c

@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ enum {
 	TEXT = 0, ESCAPE = 033, BRACKET = '['
 };
 
-static DWORD WINAPI console_thread(LPVOID unused)
+static unsigned int WINAPI console_thread(LPVOID unused)
 {
 	unsigned char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE];
 	DWORD bytes;

@@ -643,9 +643,9 @@ void winansi_init(void)
 		die_lasterr("CreateFile for named pipe failed");
 
 	/* start console spool thread on the pipe's read end */
-	hthread = CreateThread(NULL, 0, console_thread, NULL, 0, NULL);
-	if (hthread == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
-		die_lasterr("CreateThread(console_thread) failed");
+	hthread = (HANDLE)_beginthreadex(NULL, 0, console_thread, NULL, 0, NULL);
+	if (!hthread)
+		die_lasterr("_beginthreadex(console_thread) failed");
 
 	/* schedule cleanup routine */
 	if (atexit(winansi_exit))

base-commit: 56c8fb1e95377900ec9d53c07886022af0a5d3c2
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