[vlc-devel] RE : [Bulk] Re: RE : commit: a missing module_unneed is added(Windowsand MacOS ports) ( Erwan Tulou )

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On 23 jun 2009, at 10:12, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:27:47 +0200, "brezhoneg1" <brezhoneg1 at yahoo.fr>
> wrote:
>> I guess vlc_object_kill/vlc_object_join can be kept, as it just means
>> cleaning up the extra MonitorLibVLCDeath thread if any. Since
>> termination has started, this thread is no longer needed anyway.
>
> Killing a thread twice is useless, and given that none of the buggy
> interfaces use cancellation it really is unlikely to speed up  
> anything.
> Joining a thread twice is not valid.
>

Reported minutes ago in a test of last night's nightly

13:40 < voxadam> LibVLC fatal error joining thread (3) in thread  
2687313536 at ../../src/misc/threads.c:931 in vlc_join

DJ