[vdr] Re: Complete all-in-one safe threading patch for vanilla vdr-1.3.17 (with poison)

[Stefan Taferner <taferner@kde.org>]

On Monday 06 December 2004 09:55, C.Y.M wrote:
> With all the confusion and patches flying around these past few days, I
> have compiled an all-in-one patch that includes all the latest threading
> fixes for vanilla vdr-1.3.17.  This include the fixes for the race
> conditions in cThread::Start by Reinhard Nissl and safe threading
> patches by Rainer Zocholl. Klaus, please consider adding this to
> vdr-1.3.18.
>
> Thanks goes out to everyone that contributed their time and effort on
> this.  Without them, this patch would not be possible.
>
> Thanks,
> C.Y.M

Great work!

I think it would be helpful to have the poisoning statements permanently
added to vdr to make plugin writers more aware of the threading problems.

--Stefan