[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 2/2] zeroconf: Fix pa_mainloop_api_once usage

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 21:06 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 18:16 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> > We need the mainloop lock to be taken around pa_mainloop_api_once() to
> > prevent an assert due to the defer event creation and setting of the
> > destroy callback not being performed atomically.
> > ---
> 
> No comments, so pushed both of these out now.

I would appreciate it if you gave a bit more time to comment on patches.
FWIW, I wait for a week on my patches before pushing due to lack of
comments.

I have an issue with the changed documentation (and the commit messages,
but it's too late to change those now). It's not really relevant that
defer_new() and defer_set_destroy() aren't run somehow together
("atomically"). Even if defer_new() took a free callback as a parameter,
making the defer_set_destroy() call unnecessary, there would still be
the exact same rules regarding threads. If you create a defer event, it
must always be done from the mainloop thread, if you don't know what the
mainloop implementation is. If you do know the mainloop implementation,
e.g. pa_threaded_mainloop, then the general rule may be relaxed, given
that you follow the rules of the mainloop implementation, e.g. call a
locking function first. In case of pa_threaded_mainloop, you can not
call defer_new() without locking first.

-- 
Tanu