This situation may happen like so:
Thread 1 with low priority calls WaitProcessWideKey with timeout.
Thread 2 with high priority calls WaitProcessWideKey without timeout.
Thread 3 calls SignalProcessWideKey
- Thread 2 acquires the lock and awakens.
- Thread 1 can't acquire the lock and is put to sleep with the lock owner being Thread 2.
Thread 1's timeout expires, with the lock owner still being set to Thread 2.