"esafran" <eyal (AT) mokedor (DOT) com> wrote



No, this won't work, if you can't fix the "OS loader lock" issue by one of the resolutions
as mentioned in the article (Initialization of Mixed Assemblies ) pointed to by Ben, then
you are out of luck and you will have to move forward.

Willy.

On Mar 21, 11:16 am, "Willy Denoyette [MVP]"
<willy.denoye... (AT) telenet (DOT) be> wrote:
I've found out a scenario where it always hang, and so, i've found a
workaround to it.
The problem is in the order DLLs are being loaded.

Example:
I have a Managed class MBuffer which references to its Unmanaged class
CBuffer

I also have a Managed class MDecoder which references to its Unmanaged
class CDecoder and it references to the unmanaged CBuffer.

MBuffer -> CBuffer
MDecoder -> CDecoder
CDecoder -> CBuffer

now, if the process have loaded the DLLs in the following order, the
process will get stuck:

1) MBuffer
2) CBuffer
3) MDecoder
4) CDecoder

however, if the loading order of the DLLs would have been:
1) MDecoder
2) CDecoder
3) CBuffer
4) MBuffer

the process will never get stuck.

I really don't know why it acts like that.

If you have any idea on how to solve / debug that, that would be
great.
Currently I'm forcing synchronization between the 2 threads with a
static ManualResetEvent, so that the MBuffer DLL will not load untill
its CBuffer DLL will load.

Eyal Safran.