[vlc-devel] Handling deadlock between display:Open() and vout_window_ReportSize()

Alexandre Janniaux ajanni at videolabs.io
Fri Dec 13 17:51:52 CET 2019


Hi,

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 06:08:38PM +0200, RĂ©mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> 	Hi,
>
> There's an obvious lock inversion in that patch that will break all platforms.
> And I don't think that adding a lock as such can fix any kind of deadlock.
>
> Also this patch was ostensibly not even compile-tested.

I litterally wrote what you said. I didn't ask to compile it,
and even made it an embedded diff so people are not tempted
to git am it.

That's not the question here.


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