On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 10:13 +0100, Marcel M?ller wrote: > If select() in the implementation of pa_poll returns an error because of > an invalid socket, pa_poll tries to find out which descriptor is bad. > And then retries the select. But this is still in not synchronized > context. So a second descriptor may become bad on the second call to > select. This is not captured. And consequently pa_poll fails and the > mainloop terminates, resulting in deadlocks if further activity is on > the way. > It seems that I managed to trigger this problem on OS/2 from time to > time when closing a pa_stream and a pa_context and opening another > context at almost the same time. > > I would recommend to jump to the previous select() call instead of > executing another one without error checking. To avoid infinite loops > this should only be done if the check removed at least one descriptor. Do you have a patch yet? -- Tanu
