static HANDLE hThread;

bool CreateOTTDThread(void *func, void *param)

{

	DWORD dwThreadId;

	hThread = CreateThread(NULL, 0, (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)func, param, 0, &dwThreadId);

	SetThreadPriority(hThread, THREAD_PRIORITY_BELOW_NORMAL);

	return (hThread == NULL) ? false : true;

}

void CloseOTTDThread(void)

{

	if (!CloseHandle(hThread)) DEBUG(misc, 0) ("Failed to close thread?...");

}

void JoinOTTDThread(void)

{

	if (hThread == NULL) return;

	WaitForSingleObject(hThread, INFINITE);

}