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Re: [Libevent-users] Deadlock when calling bufferevent_free from an other thread

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From: Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:52:22 -0400
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On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Matthieu Nottale
<mnottale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm experiencing a deadlock on 2.0.19 while calling bufferevent_free frome
> thread A, while thread B is in event_base_dispatch.
>

Ouch.  This is a known bug.  This fix is going to be hard.  I wrote
about it here:
http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Feb-2012/msg00053.html

Does anybody want to take a crack at it?
-- 
Nick
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