std: prevent `CreateProcess()` race on Windows

Believe or not, `CreateProcess()` is racy if several threads create
child processes: [0], [1], [2].

This caused some tests show crash dialogs during
`make check-stage#-rpass`.

More explanation:

On Windows, `SetErrorMode()` controls display of error dialogs: it
accepts new error mode and returns old error mode.
The error mode is process-global and automatically inherited to child
process when created.

MSYS2 bash shell internally sets it to not show error dialogs, therefore
`make check-stage#-rpass` should not show them either.

However, [1] says that `CreateProcess()` internally invokes
`SetErrorMode()` twice: at first it sets mode `0x8001` and saves
original mode, and at second it restores original mode.
So if two threads simultaneously call `CreateProcess()`, the first
thread sets error mode to `0x8001` then the second thread recognizes
that current error mode is `0x8001`. Therefore, The second thread will
create process with wrong error mode.

This really occurs inside `compiletest`: it creates several processes on
each thread, so some `run-pass` tests are invoked with wrong error mode
therefore show crash dialog.

This commit adds `StaticMutex` for `CreateProcess()` call. This seems
to fix the "dialog annoyance" issue.

[0]: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315939
[1]: https://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/issues/detail?id=2968
[2]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2650

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/windows/process.rs b/src/libstd/sys/windows/process.rs
index 7b667416b17..8e1f169b5cd 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/windows/process.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/windows/process.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ use path::BytesContainer;
 use ptr;
 use str;
 use sys::fs::FileDesc;
+use sync::{StaticMutex, MUTEX_INIT};
+
 use sys::fs;
 use sys::{self, retry, c, wouldblock, set_nonblocking, ms_to_timeval, timer};
 use sys_common::helper_thread::Helper;
@@ -32,6 +34,10 @@ use sys_common::{AsInner, mkerr_libc, timeout};
 
 pub use sys_common::ProcessConfig;
 
+// `CreateProcess` is racy!
+// http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315939
+static CREATE_PROCESS_LOCK: StaticMutex = MUTEX_INIT;
+
 /// A value representing a child process.
 ///
 /// The lifetime of this value is linked to the lifetime of the actual
@@ -224,6 +230,7 @@ impl Process {
                 with_dirp(cfg.cwd(), |dirp| {
                     let mut cmd_str: Vec<u16> = cmd_str.utf16_units().collect();
                     cmd_str.push(0);
+                    let _lock = CREATE_PROCESS_LOCK.lock().unwrap();
                     let created = CreateProcessW(ptr::null(),
                                                  cmd_str.as_mut_ptr(),
                                                  ptr::null_mut(),