The thread functions defined in common-thread-private.h give a platform agnostic thread and mutex API.

On Windows, bson_thread_create wraps CreateThread. This creates a new thread handle. And bson_thread_join wraps WaitForSingleObject to wait on that thread handle, but it does not close the thread handle after waiting.

The documentation for CreateThread states:

> The thread object remains in the system until the thread has terminated and all handles to it have been closed through a call to CloseHandle.

The leak can be observed this with a simple example program that just creates and destroys a mongoc_client_pool_t repeatedly (which creates one monitoring thread and joins it repeatedly). The example is attached as handle-leak.c. A screenshot of process explorer showing a large number of open handles is also attached.