[KDevPlatform] bae38ce: Use pthread directly for the foreground mutex, pot

Milian Wolff mail at milianw.de
Fri Dec 3 10:57:45 UTC 2010


On Friday 03 December 2010 00:24:36 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> > Sorry David, but this is a no-go. Pthread is not cross-platform, and I
> > still
> > did not find a single reason for why this should be a QMutex bug. Why
> > does that work for us in all other cases (and tons of other projects),
> > but no here?
> > 
> > Really, instead of putting work-around over work-around, we should
> > dissect this problem and find the *real* reason.
> > 
> > Doing guess-work won't help, and so far you only proposed that there
> > *could*
> > be a bug in QMutex, without
> > 
> > a) explaining where the bug occurs
> > b) reporting a bug to Nokia
> > 
> > I'm heavily opposed to this, imo you should start to write unit tests and
> > try
> > to reproduce the deadlock before adding more workarounds.
>
> What happened with that one?

Nothing, it's still in and I still need to find a way to convince David that 
this is a no-go. He answered my mail here:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252659

bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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