OK, so let me get this straight: You are doing something (calling LIVE555 code 
(beyond just “triggerEvent()”) from a thread outside the event loop) that you 
know is ‘unsupported’, and which you (should) also know could produce many race 
conditions that may cause your application to fail in unpredictable ways.  And 
you expect me to accept a patch that removes just one of these many possible 
race conditions that can occur if you do something that you shouldn’t be doing?

Sorry, but I’m not going to be applying this patch.  
http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/faq.html#threads means what it says.  You 
should only be calling this code from the event loop.  If you do this, then - 
after the call to “write()” - the current code will always get to enqueue the 
request record before it ends up returning to the event loop to handle the 
response.

What I don’t understand is why you even wanted to send RTSP commands from 
outside the event loop in the first place?  A RTSP command is usually sent only 
after handling a RTSP response, or after some time has expired - both of which 
are events that are handled within the event loop.  And if you want to open 
multiple RTSP stream (each with its own “rtsp://“ URL) concurrently, then you 
can easily do this within a single event loop, as illustrated by our 
“testRTSPClient” command; see the code at lines 77-80 and 182-184 in 
“testProgs/testRTSPClient.cpp”.


Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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