[issue23095] [Windows] asyncio: race condition when cancelling a _WaitHandleFuture

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

Running "runtests.py test_cancel_post_init test_shell" and "runtests.py test_wait_for_handle test_wait_for_handle_cancel" of Tulip show a different behaviour of _WaitHandleFuture. In one case, the cancelled wait is still signaled, on other case, it's never signaled.

Currently, a cancelled _WaitHandleFuture always unregisters the overlapped operation, which causes unexpected event or may lead tests to hang. Never unregisters causes a different issue. Unregistering the overlapped indirectly delete it in memory, which is bad if the completion is still signaled.

A workaround is to keep a reference to the unregistered overlopped, but it's an ugly workaround.

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