[Marble-devel] Review Request: Clean gpsd position provider shutdown

[Bastian Holst]

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Ship it!


I also had no possibility, but it looks good to me.


/trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/plugins/positionprovider/gpsd/GpsdPositionProviderPlugin.cpp
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    I'm not sure if it is a good idea to remove this. Thinking that this will never happen it is no problem to do this, but otherwise it would result into deleting a running QThread which seems to be worse according to the Qt doc as it would result in a crash.


- Bastian


On 2010-04-23 19:38:29, Dennis Nienhüser wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-04-23 19:38:29)
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> Review request for marble.
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> Summary
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> When gpsd is running, but no data is available, the gpsd position provider is currently blocked indefinitely for libgsp >= 2.90 by the poll() call. In that case the destruction of the thread hangs in wait() after terminate(), which leads to marble freezing when turning gpsd off. It may also cause the crash reported in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234311.
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> The patch changes the behavior to only call the blocking method when data is available (and it won't block in that case). Additionally it removes the possibly dangerous (according to qt docs) terminate() call.
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> This addresses bug 234311.
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234311
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/plugins/positionprovider/gpsd/GpsdConnection.cpp 1117994 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/plugins/positionprovider/gpsd/GpsdPositionProviderPlugin.cpp 1117994 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3794/diff
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> Testing
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> Using libgps-2.92-4 and some gps device supported by gpsd.
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> Thanks,
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> Dennis
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