Adding support for non joinable threads to PlatformThread

base/platform_thread_win.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2006-2008 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "base/platform_thread.h"
 
 #include "base/logging.h"
 #include "base/win_util.h"
 
 namespace {
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   // faster and doesn't require the loader lock to be available.  Our code will
   // have to work running on CreateThread() threads anyway, since we run code
   // on the Windows thread pool, etc.  For some background on the difference:
   //   http://www.microsoft.com/msj/1099/win32/win321099.aspx
   *thread_handle = CreateThread(
       NULL, stack_size, ThreadFunc, delegate, flags, NULL);
   return *thread_handle != NULL;
 }
 
 // static
+bool PlatformThread::CreateNonJoinable(size_t stack_size, Delegate* delegate) {
+  PlatformThreadHandle thread_handle;
+  bool result = Create(stack_size, delegate, &thread_handle);
+  CloseHandle(thread_handle);
+  return result;
+}
+
+// static
 void PlatformThread::Join(PlatformThreadHandle thread_handle) {
   DCHECK(thread_handle);
 
   // Wait for the thread to exit.  It should already have terminated but make
   // sure this assumption is valid.
   DWORD result = WaitForSingleObject(thread_handle, INFINITE);
   DCHECK_EQ(WAIT_OBJECT_0, result);
 
   CloseHandle(thread_handle);
 }