Added some checks when cancelling a thread and removed the usleep() in cThread::Start(); removed 'running' from cThread

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/thread.c b/thread.c
index a646b3f1..730fa733 100644
--- a/thread.c
+++ b/thread.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: thread.c 1.33 2004/10/24 09:47:57 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: thread.c 1.34 2004/10/24 10:27:47 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "thread.h"
@@ -189,7 +189,6 @@ bool cThread::emergencyExitRequested = false;
 
 cThread::cThread(const char *Description)
 {
-  running = false;
   parentTid = childTid = 0;
   description = NULL;
   SetDescription(Description);
@@ -226,13 +225,11 @@ void *cThread::StartThread(cThread *Thread)
 
 bool cThread::Start(void)
 {
-  if (!running) {
-     running = true;
+  if (!childTid) {
      parentTid = pthread_self();
      pthread_create(&childTid, NULL, (void *(*) (void *))&StartThread, (void *)this);
      pthread_detach(childTid); // auto-reap
      pthread_setschedparam(childTid, SCHED_RR, 0);
-     usleep(10000); // otherwise calling Active() immediately after Start() causes a "pure virtual method called" error
      }
   return true; //XXX return value of pthread_create()???
 }
@@ -263,16 +260,20 @@ bool cThread::Active(void)
 
 void cThread::Cancel(int WaitSeconds)
 {
-  running = false;
-  if (WaitSeconds > 0) {
-     for (time_t t0 = time(NULL) + WaitSeconds; time(NULL) < t0; ) {
-         if (!Active())
-            return;
-         usleep(10000);
-         }
-     esyslog("ERROR: thread %ld won't end (waited %d seconds) - cancelling it...", childTid, WaitSeconds);
+  if (childTid) {
+     if (WaitSeconds > 0) {
+        for (time_t t0 = time(NULL) + WaitSeconds; time(NULL) < t0; ) {
+            if (!Active())
+               return;
+            usleep(10000);
+            }
+        esyslog("ERROR: thread %ld won't end (waited %d seconds) - cancelling it...", childTid, WaitSeconds);
+        }
+     if (childTid) {
+        pthread_cancel(childTid);
+        childTid = 0;
+        }
      }
-  pthread_cancel(childTid);
 }
 
 bool cThread::EmergencyExit(bool Request)