[mythtv] Ticket #3062: Freebsd compatibility patches

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 6:35:54 pm Isaac Richards wrote:
> 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.

Actually, looking at it again, I see what the problem on freebsd could be.  
Easy enough to fix properly, without breaking the lock or just disabling it.. 
=)

Isaac