If a monitor is started and stopped before the external monitoring thread
has had time to start, a deadlock will occur.
The first thing that the monitoring threads do is read the monitor handle
from the monitor object. This handle is given as the return value of
startMonitor and it is stored in the monitor object. As this can still be
NULL when the monitor thread starts, the threads use locks to prevent
this.
The correct way to prevent this is to pass the handle as the thread
parameter so that no locks are required.
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