[Live-devel] Fix for deadlock

Jeremy Noring jnoring at logitech.com
Wed Feb 3 19:46:16 PST 2010


On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> I applied your previous patches (to turn 'nonblocking' mode on, then off
> for the socket if there's a timeout parameter), and it will appear in the
> next release, but I'm not going to apply this one, because synchronous
> (blocking) socket reads in "RTSPClient" will eventually be going away.<http://lists.live555.com/mailman/listinfo/live-devel>
>

That sounds good.  Two follow up questions:

1. Any estimate on when blocking socket reads will get go away,  and is
there anything I can do to help?
2. Can you think of any potential risks to the aforementioned patch to add a
timeout?

Thanks again.
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