[mythtv] Freezes on 64bit when starting recordings or LiveTV

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Sun Mar 27 15:10:52 UTC 2005


On Sunday 27 March 2005 05:59 am, Adam Egger wrote:
> Ok, I've found an old patch from Kyle Rose to replace all
> pthread_rwlock_* calls with a mix of pthread_mutex_* and
> pthread_cond_*:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/107232?search_string=pth
>read_rwlock;#107232
>
> Isaac, is it a bad solution to replace them permanently in RingBuffer.cpp?

Yes.  That patch isn't correct, and I'm not going to stop using standard 
functionality just because it's broken on one little-used platform.  I'm 
fairly sure people are using native 64-bit stuff elsewhere, so it's just 
seems like Debian's behind as usual.

Isaac


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