[mythtv] MythSocket class
Mark Paulus
mark.paulus at verizonbusiness.com
Wed Apr 5 16:59:51 UTC 2006
This may be a stupid question, but if we have un-threadsafe socket
issues, why don't we use standard mutexes (sp??) to protect the socket
operations??
Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 10:55, Jim Westfall wrote:
>> Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote [04.05.06]:
>>> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 21:08, Jim Westfall wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I took a stab at making a MythSocket class that was talked about
>>>> briefly last week. Attached is what I have thus far.
>>>>
>>>> mythsocket.diff - main patch that adds MythSocket into libmyth without
>>>> converting anything else. Its based on QSocketDevice and adds
>>>> readyRead, connectionClosed, connected, and connectionFailed callbacks.
>>>> It also has a connectToHost() function like QSocket to background the
>>>> connect() process. I still need to add dns lookup support.
>>> I think I'd prefer an object that wasn't a QObject and didn't use a
>>> QSocketNotifier. That's what's causing problems with using QSocket now.
>> hrm I thought it was strictly a QSocket not being thread safe issue.
>> Multiple calls to any of its functions that adjust its internal buffer can
>> result in a crash.
>
> I've seen bunches of crashes due to the QSocketNotifier as well. However, it
> may be ok if we add qApp->lock/unlock around those (un)registerSocketNotifier
> calls.. I think the crashes were probably from QSocket weirdness (it tends
> to occasionally add multiple notifiers of the same type for the same socket,
> which seems to go horribly wrong).
>
>> How would you go about doing it then? Have MythSocket create a thread
>> and monitor (select()) its own socket?
>
> Something like that, yeah. Let's try what you have, first, just with some
> additional locking, and adding refcounting to the class, too..
>
> Isaac
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