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The deadlock is possibly caused by the thread not being joined, or because of an implementation difference with phtreads. So this fix adds a call to release the background thread when terminating it and then also joins the thread to await for the completion of the background thread. As before this works fine under Win32 (x64)
SimGear - Simulator Construction Tools ====================================== http://www.flightgear.org SimGear is a set of open-source libraries designed to be used as building blocks for quickly assembling 3d simulations, games, and visualization applications. SimGear is developed by the FlightGear project and also provides the base for the FlightGear Flight Simulator. Source code for SimGear is released under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) - see COPYING for license details. See INSTALL file for help on building SimGear.