[vlc-devel] [PATCH] test: add thread test

[Romain Vimont]

On 3/20/20 8:53 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le perjantaina 20. maaliskuuta 2020, 20.28.21 EET Romain Vimont a écrit :
>> A thread calling cond_signal() may not "signal itself" since it's not
>> cond_wait()ing. :/
> 
> Sure it can. That's the whole point.

For pthread at least, it seems it cannot: 
https://linux.die.net/man/3/pthread_cond_signal

> The pthread_cond_broadcast() and pthread_cond_signal() functions shall have no effect if there are no threads currently blocked on cond.

Where is it authorized to behave that way?