Re: Is it safe to send one thread's stack buffer pointer to another th

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:01:39 -0400
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"pango" <pango@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:22EB684E-7E1A-4C23-93A3-D50DCE64926D@microsoft.com

My program hook some API call in main thread,and deliver the call to
another thread.I use below ASM code get a API call's input param
buffer(just the stack pointer):

_asm push eax,ebp;
_asm add eax,8; // eax register then store stack buffer address

and send this pointer to another thread, and thread will use the
pointer to repeat API call just

like below:


Meanwhile, what does the main thread do? Do you suspend it in some way
while the second thread performs the call on its behalf?

It is OK to pass a pointer into a thread's stack to another thread - as
long as you can be sure the stack frame is alive as long as the second
thread refers to it. That is, the main thread must not return from the
function call before the second thread does. At which point, it's not
clear why you would want to switch to another thread in the first place.

What's the point of the exercise? What exactly is this elaborate scheme
supposed to achieve?
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