[mythtv] Trunk Aborts

Gavin Hurlbut gjhurlbu at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 15:36:02 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Fundamental problem with Pulse is that it is using callbacks to
> perform all its work. That's not something any of the mythtv threads
> like, especially if they are short lived.
> If a thread call pulse, set a call back, but that thread gets
> destructed for whatever reasons, when the callback is called, it
> points to nowhere and ultimately fail.
>
> But I had never seen that assertion failure before
>
>
Ouch.  Well, we'll figure it out, I'm sure, especially if we have at least
one person who can recreate the issue, and let us know when potential fixes
have indeed fixed it.

Crashing/aborting is nasty and should never happen.  Naughty code! :)
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