I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written... > Darren Salt wrote: >> The attached patch should fix a hang (livelock) which can occur when >> moving between editing marks. Blame Timothy Baldwin if it doesn't work - >> he suggested it ;-) [snip] > Under which conditions do these lockups happen? > Which output device is in use (FF DVB card or some software player)? It's happened here: budget card, xine-lib. > I don't really see what difference this sched_yield() would make, so I'd > like to understand this before simply throwing it in... Quoting from the mail which described the patch: | It's livelock! | The thread which executes cDvbPlayer::Action(void) (in dvbplayer.c) locks | the cDvbPlayer object most of the time when an editing mark is first jumped | to. The symptoms are cured by adding a call to sched_yield() before | LOCK_THREAD in cDvbPlayer::Action(void). -- | Darren Salt | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Debian, | s zap,tartarus,org | Northumberland | RISC OS | @ | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) State farm? Guard dogs?
