[vlc-devel] [PATCH] remove timeout use in live555

[Sébastien Escudier]

Quoting Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:

>
> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:14:28 +0200, Sébastien Escudier
> <sebastien-devel at celeos.eu> wrote:
> > My timeout patch in live555 seems to be buggy for windows versions.
> >
> > So we should not use it, and wait for live555 RTSPClient asynchronous
> > modifications.
> >
> > Until that, some live555 calls will freeze vlc.
>
> IIRC, that won't fix it as live555 will still use the new buggy
> non-blocking select code?

If "timeout" is not set, the socket won't be "non-blocking", and select won't be
called.

So the only difference with a live555 version before my patch is errno check
after connect call.

But I can't test this with windows, sorry.