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+/*
+
+Miranda IM: the free IM client for Microsoft* Windows*
+
+Copyright 2000-2009 Miranda ICQ/IM project, 
+all portions of this codebase are copyrighted to the people 
+listed in contributors.txt.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
+*/
+
+/*
+
+Purpose:
+	
+	A safe version of _beginthread()
+
+Description:
+
+	A new thread is created and the source thread is paused until
+	internal code to call MS_SYSTEM_THREAD_PUSH is made in the context
+	if the new thread.
+
+	The source thread is then released and then the user supplied
+	code is called, when that function returns -- MS_SYSTEM_THREAD_POP
+	is called and then the thread returns.
+
+	This insures that Miranda will not exit whilst new threads
+	are trying to be born; and the unwind wait stack will unsure
+	that Miranda will wait for all created threads to return as well.
+
+Cavets:
+
+	The function must be reimplemented across MT plugins, since thread
+	creation depends on CRT which can not be shared.
+
+*/
+UINT_PTR forkthread (
+	void (__cdecl *threadcode)(void*),
+	unsigned long stacksize,
+	void *arg
+);
+
+UINT_PTR forkthreadex(
+	void *sec,
+	unsigned stacksize,
+	unsigned (__stdcall *threadcode)(void*),
+	void *owner,
+	void *arg,
+	unsigned *thraddr
+);