Windows: Fix race between windows_clock_gettime_threaded() and windows_clock_gettime()
* When the timer thread is created in windows_init(), it performs an
initialisation phase in which it uses QueryPerformanceFrequency() to determine
if there is a high resolution timer available, and sets hires_frequency and
hires_ticks_to_ps appropriately. However, since windows_init() does not wait for
this initialisation phase to complete, windows_clock_gettime() can be called
before hires_frequency and hires_ticks_to_ps have been updated. This can result
in windows_clock_gettime() temporarily returning real-time clock values even
though the platform supports a monotonic clock.
* See http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1373620013-3574-1-git-send-email-simon.haggett%40realvnc.com&forum_name=libusbx-devel
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