[Live-devel] RTP over TCP sometimes locks up the server

[Ross Finlayson]

Peter,

Thanks for the report.  Yes, you're correct that the current code is 
buggy - it should not be doing more than one potentially blocking 
socket read inside the read handler (because the second and 
subsequent reads might, indeed, block).  It seems a bit strange that 
a client would behave in such a way as to make this a problem, but 
certainly the server should not be relying upon correct client 
behavior.

In the next released version of the code, I'll see if I can find a 
way to make this code more bullet-proof - most likely using timeouts 
on the socket reads, as you suggested.
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/