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Misleading/non-effective usage of DetourUpdateThread in samples #151

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@ohuseyinoglu

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As mentioned in the discussion b/w @sylveon and @bgianfo, passing GetCurrentThread() to DetourUpdateThread() is practically a NO-OP, however, probably all the samples, and the Using Detours wiki does use the API that way currently!

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This is non-effective, and worse, misleading, giving users a false sense of security in their Detours usage. A better handling of threads should be provided at the API level (or at least more detailed code added to samples).

I haven't reviewed the code, but @sonyps5201314 has a closed PR suggesting a new API entry point (DetourUpdateAllOtherThreads). Something along those lines may be useful probably??

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Latest on master as of this issue's creation date: d8b8144

Additional context

I'll log another issue/question about the stability of the RIP changing after this. Please evaluate the issues together.

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