[Bug 750397] CRITICAL: Race condition in GstBus

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750397

--- Comment #50 from Matt Gruenke <mgruenke at tycoint.com> ---
(In reply to Sebastian Dröge (slomo) from comment #49)
> (In reply to Matt Gruenke from comment #48)
> 
> > Please understand that, in spite of removing O_NONBLOCK, the intention is
> > still that RELEASE_EVENT() shouldn't block for any appreciable amount of
> > time.  We only avoid O_NONBLOCK to ensure the read() succeeds.
> 
> The thing is that the API specifies explicitly that it should not succeed if
> there is no data to be read, as such we must not block.

Yes, I get it.  I think my latest patch is consistent with that objective.  If
you believe otherwise, please indicate why.

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