> In bug 1218297 we saw a case where dispatch to a thread (the socket
> transport service thread in this case) fails because the thread has
> already shut down.  In our brave new world, nsThread simply leaks the
> runnable.  It can't release the reference it holds, because that would
> reintroduce the race condition we wanted to avoid, and it can't
> release the reference on the correct thread so it's already gone away.
>

I am a bit confused with this, if the executing thread has already shut
down,
why would releasing the reference dispatching thread holds reintroduce the
race
condition? Who is racing with dispatching thread?

Ting
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