[Spice-devel] [spice-protocol PATCH v3] volume-sync: spice-protocol, spice-gtk and linux-vdagent

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

----- Original Message -----
> > > Right, but is it race free when you just start a session? Couldn't you
> > > try
> > > to get the current volume while it's not been yet received?
> >
> > You got me here, I'm not sure about this. AFAIK as spice-pulse uses
> > glib-mainloop it should be in the same context, right? I'll take a
> > better look into this.
> 
> I don't think it may lead to race problems as the call to get volume and
> the volume update are handled in the same glib-mainloop.

It's not about thread races here, it's about concurrency. You could still
be trying to read values that aren't yet received.