[Mono-bugs] [Bug 79484][Nor] Changed - null reference exception in System.Timers.StartTimer()

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Changed by psingh at fnfr.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79484

--- shadow/79484	2006-09-26 19:19:05.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/79484.tmp.10737	2006-09-27 02:11:38.000000000 -0400
@@ -68,6 +68,24 @@
 
 
 ------- Additional Comments From psingh at fnfr.com  2006-09-26 19:19 -------
 The patch in 77847 was submitted 6 months ago. I did a get latest
 today (09/26/2006) and it has not made it in there. Why are Mono guys
 not taking the patch? This seems to be a big problem with Timers code.
+
+------- Additional Comments From psingh at fnfr.com  2006-09-27 02:11 -------
+Actually the problem is more insidious than that. The Crash is on the
+following line in method StartTimer():
+
+==>((IDisposable) wait).Dispose ();
+
+I traced it down into the mono library call - in WaitHandle.cs:Dispose()
+NativeEventCalls.CloseEvent_internal (os_handle);
+
+Somehow, the underlying mono platform code on RHEL 4.0 has problems
+when  the app creates tonnes of threads, events, timers.
+
+Is anyone going to look into it? We can reproduce it at will right now
+ and it will be great if a Mono developer can "breeze" into our
+computers and take a look.
+
+