My question is: what percentage of the users is using linux? Here I am assuming that linux users, and only linux users, are using the GTK part (and gstreamer).
I have reason to believe that GTK is not being used thread-safe, which should cause random crashes on linux. The reason that I believe this is because I started to use GTK seriously from a new thread which immediately caused very frequent crashes (more than 95% of the time) which led me quickly to find out that gdk threading wasn't initialized (no locking takes place at all in the current viewer). I added that initialization and locking, and added some necessary (missing) locking calls... until my new thread ran perfectly. However, what I run into now are deadlocks (without using my new thread). This indicates that the viewer (without my changes) is using gdk/gtk from two different threads at the same time (and without locking thus). That this works in most cases could be just luck. I was/am planning to provide a patch for this, but I'm busy :p So, hence the question at the top. I'd expect crashes on linux while people are playing music and open a file picker window at the same time; if this is not the case, then I guess that the gstreamer mainloop doesn't bite the filepicker by coincidence, what would make this a not so hight priority to fix though. Carlo Wood _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
