Strange crash with KSharedPtr

[Alex Merry]

On Tuesday 14 October 2008 23:16:36 Alex Merry wrote:
> Or it's being shared across threads.  The referencing and dereferencing
> should be thread-safe, but I don't think KSharedPtr as a whole is - it's
> possible for thread 1 to call track(), creating a new Meta::TrackPtr, but
> thread 2 to cause the last remaining Meta::TrackPtr for this track to be
> dereferenced (hence deleting the Meta::Track) before thread 1 gets around
> to calling
> Meta::Track::ref().

I should say that I doubt it is a threading issue, because it's quite a tight 
race condition, so I wouldn't expect it to happen so regularly.

Alex


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