[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Avoid deadlock on UDP stop

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 2014-05-21 16:53, Romain Vimont a écrit :
> This is not a problem because I don't use b_eof for that. If I would
> write it from TR, then it would be a problem…
>
> According to you, apart from using a (synchronized) flag like
> b_finishing, how should we make TR wake up BU (blocked in
> block_FifoGet() in BlockUDP()) from the end of ThreadRead(), in order 
> to
> prevent the deadlock in all cases?

Write b_eof from BlockUDP() as normal, IIRC it was mentioned already.

Or better yet fix the real problem, the multiple unsynchronized alive 
flags of the input objects.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont