(svn r2807) Fix two major bugs in the threaded save code:

- Do not dereference a local variable which no longer exists; this lead to random crashes when saving
- (Win32) Do not close a handle before it is used last
There are still many major problems (race conditions and resulting memory corruption/crashes) left

functions.h

@@ -279,6 +279,5 @@ void DeterminePaths(void);
 
 void bubblesort(void *base, size_t nmemb, size_t size, int(*compar)(const void *, const void *));
 bool CreateOTTDThread(void *func, void *param);
-void CloseOTTDThread(void);
 void JoinOTTDThread(void);
 #endif /* FUNCTIONS_H */

os2.c

@@ -647,12 +647,6 @@ bool CreateOTTDThread(void *func, void *param)
 	return(true);
 }
 
-void CloseOTTDThread(void)
-{
-	_endthread();
-	return;
-}
-
 void JoinOTTDThread(void)
 {
 	if (thread1 == 0)

saveload.c

@@ -1292,7 +1292,6 @@ static bool SaveFileToDisk(void *ptr)
 	fclose(_sl.fh);
 
 	SaveFileDone();
-	if (*(bool*)ptr) CloseOTTDThread();
 	return true;
 }
 
@@ -1364,7 +1363,6 @@ SaveOrLoadResult SaveOrLoad(const char *filename, int mode)
 	/* General tactic is to first save the game to memory, then use an available writer
 	 * to write it to file, either in threaded mode if possible, or single-threaded */
 	if (mode == SL_SAVE) { /* SAVE game */
-		bool threaded = true;
 		fmt = GetSavegameFormat("memory"); // write to memory
 
 		_sl.write_bytes = fmt->writer;
@@ -1381,10 +1379,9 @@ SaveOrLoadResult SaveOrLoad(const char *filename, int mode)
 		SlWriteFill(); // flush the save buffer
 
 		/* Write to file */
-		if (_network_server || !CreateOTTDThread(&SaveFileToDisk, &threaded)) {
+		if (_network_server || !CreateOTTDThread(&SaveFileToDisk, NULL)) {
 			DEBUG(misc, 1) ("cannot create savegame thread, reverting to single-threaded mode...");
-			threaded = false;
-			SaveFileToDisk(&threaded);
+			SaveFileToDisk(NULL);
 		}
 
 	} else { /* LOAD game */

unix.c

@@ -530,8 +530,6 @@ bool CreateOTTDThread(void *func, void *param)
 	return pthread_create(&thread1, NULL, func, param) == 0;
 }
 
-void CloseOTTDThread(void) {return;}
-
 void JoinOTTDThread(void)
 {
 	if (thread1 == 0) return;

win32.c

@@ -1204,16 +1204,12 @@ bool CreateOTTDThread(void *func, void *param)
 	return hThread != NULL;
 }
 
-void CloseOTTDThread(void)
-{
-	if (!CloseHandle(hThread)) DEBUG(misc, 0) ("Failed to close thread?...");
-}
-
 void JoinOTTDThread(void)
 {
 	if (hThread == NULL) return;
 
 	WaitForSingleObject(hThread, INFINITE);
+	if (!CloseHandle(hThread)) DEBUG(misc, 0) ("Failed to close thread handle!");
 }