[FFmpeg-devel] Race conditions in libavcodec/pthread.c

[Uoti Urpala]

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 15:55 -0700, Aaron Colwell wrote:
> The thing is that state is modified by the main thread (submit_packet()) &
> worker threads (frame_worker_thread()). It needs lock protection to avoid
> race conditions. I agree it's a non-trivial change to fix this. That's why I
> wanted to ping the list first.

Are you sure that causes race conditions? The variable is "owned" by
different threads in turn; I don't see how they'd overwrite each other's
changes at least.

> I figured it was worth a discussion before diving in. :)

If you want to discuss it with the people who have worked on the code
you should post to libav-devel.