[vdr] Re: VDR developer version 1.3.14

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
> 
> On 24 Oct 2004 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:
> 
> > - Added some checks when cancelling a thread and removed the usleep() in
> >   cThread::Start() (suggested by Ludwig Nussel). Also removed 'running' from
> >   cThread and using only childTid to indicate whether a thread is actually
> >   running.
> 
> Although the changes improves a lot, I think the code isn't 100%
> tight. childTid is accessed from 2 threads and should be
> protected by a mutex to be save.
> 
> Should I prepare a patch?

I don't think that this is necessary.
childTid is an integral variable and thus read or written "as a whole".
I don't see any danger here - but if you can come up with a scenario
where there could be a problem, I might stand corrected.

Klaus