[mythtv] Crash of MythMusic

Eskil Heyn Olsen myth at eskil.org
Tue Mar 20 19:24:03 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 15:33 +0000, Stuart Morgan wrote:

> > I experience a crash of MythMusic like discussed in
> > http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2557 .

> > Iterating over a list without locking is never a good idea,
> > when the list is also used from other threads.

It is a career limiting move.

> > What was the reason that this patch has been removed?
> The patch caused problems (deadlocks ?) in every other part of mythtv 
> basically preventing it from working at all. When I get some free time I'll 
> try to sort it out - unless someone else figures it out before then.

If someone could point me to places that deadlock, that do not involve a
full tv setup (ain't buying a tuner card to fix my patch), I'll happily
stab at it again.

eskil
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