[mythtv] Ticket #3062: Freebsd compatibility patches

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 6:32:48 pm usleepless at gmail.com wrote:
> List,
>
> On 2/8/07, usleepless at gmail.com <usleepless at gmail.com> wrote:
> > List,
> >
> > update on the sock.lock:
> >
> > my 0.18-fixes was already running without the readReadyLock. i removed
> > sock.lock() as well, rebuild, reinstalled, restarted.
> >
> > started up first client on fbsd6.1, watching livetv. started up 2nd
> > client on xbox, watched livetv. programmed a recording, and went back
> > to livetv.
> >
> > 3 tuners running, 2 clients watching. works fine.
>
> so, now it is 23.00 ( i removed the sock.lock around 16.00 ). out of
> the blue, a frontend displayed "could not connect to backend" while
> playing a recording. this never happened before. 2 clients were
> watching, 2 commflaggers were running. i restarted it, but i think
> this proves sock.lock is indeed necessary.
>
> i tested further on the amd64-fbsd-mythtv-0.20 machine, and
> reintroduced sock.lock() but now in MainServer::readyRead
>
> around:
>     sock->Lock();
>     prt->setup(sock);
>     sock->Unlock();
>
> this works for the amd64-fbsd-mythtv-0.20 machine. i applied the same
> patch to my 0.18-fixes server, will have to wait a couple of days to
> be sure.

I'm not changing the locking in that function.  What's there is correct.

Isaac