Opened 22 years ago

Closed 22 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#8199 closed patch (wontfix)

SKY: Possible fix for crash when changing scaler

Reported by: eriktorbjorn Owned by: SF/khalek
Priority: normal Component: Engine: Sky
Version: Keywords:
Cc: Game: Beneath a Steel Sky

Description

ScummVM sometimes crashes if you change scaler during the CD intro. I think that is because update_screen() is being called from two different threads, without any safety net against races. This patch attempts to fix that, but I'm a bit uncertain about exactly which functions need to be guarded so it may be slightly wrong and/or incomplete.

Ticket imported from: #726713. Ticket imported from: patches/304.

Attachments (1)

sky-mutex.diff (2.6 KB ) - added by eriktorbjorn 22 years ago.
Patch against an April 23 CVS snapshot

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Change History (6)

by eriktorbjorn, 22 years ago

Attachment: sky-mutex.diff added

Patch against an April 23 CVS snapshot

comment:1 by fingolfin, 22 years ago

Hm, I'll have a look at it later today. But it might be a better appproach to put the locking code into the SDL backend itself. Or not. Really need to try.

comment:2 by fingolfin, 22 years ago

I put mutex code into the SDL backend, which should make this patch obsolete. Note that other backends (morphos, palmos, wince,...) may have to be enhanced to support multiple threads properly, too.

comment:3 by SF/khalek, 22 years ago

scaler changing works fine here with cvs now, closing as I don't see a reason for this to stay open

comment:4 by SF/khalek, 22 years ago

Owner: set to SF/khalek
Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

comment:5 by digitall, 6 years ago

Component: Engine: Sky
Game: Beneath a Steel Sky
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