[Bug]: A race condition exist between the Watcher thread and the main thread terminating.

[cgyrling]

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Describe the issue

A race condition exist between the Watcher thread and main(). A case was found where the Watcher thread does not get execution time before the main function returns and calls atexit(). At that point the Watcher thread started runing tls_init() code while the main thread was shutting down. This resulted in rare crashes and deadlocks.

Steps to reproduce the problem

As this is a race condition, it is tricky to reproduce. The easiest way is to do the following.

1. Add SCOPED_TRACE right before returning from GTest.
2. Add a thread_local instance of a class that is accessing a static shared_ptr. The shared pointer gets cleaned up on 'atexit' and if you access that via your constructor in the call from tls_init(), it will access freed memory.

What version of GoogleTest are you using?

1.14.0

What operating system and version are you using?

Windows 10

What compiler and version are you using?

msc / Visual Studio 2022

What build system are you using?

buck

Additional context

No response