[vlc-devel] [PATCH] lib: media: Use an atomic refcounter

[Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019, at 7:07 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le keskiviikkona 2. lokakuuta 2019, 11.35.57 EEST Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen a écrit 
> :
> > Instead of an unprotected plain integer
> 
> Do we allow concurrent use of a single media? AFAIR, this was never defined to 
> begin with.
> 

I'd say that nothing prevents it, and that most of the underlying code appears thread safe.

>From a quick look, only the state variable is unprotected, and it appears to never be set anymore (or at least I can't find any reference to libvlc_media_set_state and that function isn't exported to the public libvlc API)


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