[Mono-dev] [PATCH] TcpChannel hang on Windows.

[Rodrigo Kumpera]

An APC call can't execute managed code for reasons very similar to doing
from a signal handler.


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Bill Holmes <billholmes54 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kornél,
>
> After reading your mail a bunch more times and messing with the sample
> I think I finally get what you were saying.
>
> What I discovered was that the APC callback being a managed method
> gives mono a chance to check the thread state when crossing to and
> from the managed thread boundary.  It is not the fact that you called
> an APC that was important.  What is important is that the APC was a
> managed call.
>
> This does in fact give me some ideas on new things to try.  I will let
> you know what I find.  I suspect that my new conclusion will be a
> risky change that will require much testing.
>
> -bill
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