[vlc-devel] [PATCH] securetransport: Protect reading/writing with a mutex

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le torstaina 5. lokakuuta 2017, 9.04.12 EEST Marvin Scholz a écrit :
> Secure Transport reading/writing is not thread safe, doing it from
> different threads results in memory corruption and other unpredictable
> behavior.

Concurrent st_Send() would still corrupt data given how the would-block error 
is handled.

But VLC does not require re-entrant send or re-entrant receive. It only 
requires that one thread can send while another thread receives (and vice 
versa).

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