Threading problems in WinDBus

[Havoc Pennington]

Hmm. I messed around with dbus-cxx a bit, but I seem to have a different 
version than yours or something, it doesn't look simple to get your test 
case going on my system.

If you can make a simple compilable test case that is C or uses stock 
dbus-c++ I can download, then I can poke at this without a large time 
investment.

It looks an awful lot like thread locks just aren't present in your 
program, though why that is I don't know, if threads are initialized.

It isn't surprising that verbose output prevents the bugs, since it 
effectively puts in a bunch of pauses. The verbose output is much slower 
than most other things libdbus would be doing.

You might want to break on the dbus thread functions like 
_dbus_mutex_lock and step through them in a debugger, to see which 
implementation is being used (_dbus_mutex_lock should end up calling 
_dbus_pthread_mutex_lock on linux for example). This is just to be sure 
there are locks at all, before debugging how the locking is messed up.

With that established another strategy is to add more and more 
assertions to libdbus to try to break things earlier, to try and narrow 
down the exact point where it goes wonky.

Havoc