[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] addons: fix threading and cancelable sections

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:04:43PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> How do you convince developers to use the would-be vlc_wait_for() macro 
> instead of vlc_cond_wait()? Removing the latter is not really an option.

 1. Convert all existing code (where it makes sense). People tend to copy code
    from other places when they write new code and are not intimately familiar
    with the given APIs.
 2. Add a warning to vlc_cond_wait() saying that using vlc_wait_for() instead
    will likely save you a world of pain.

Not perfect, I admit, and especially #1 is probably a significant chunk of
work.

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