Since glib 2.64, gthreadpool will start waiting on a GCond immediately upon
creation. This can cause issues if we fork *before* actually using the
threadpool since we will then be signalling that GCond ... from another process
and that will never work.
Instead, delay creationg of thread pools until the very first time we need
them. This introduces a minor (un-noticeable) delay when needing a new thread
but fixes the issues for all users of GSTreamer that will call gst_init, then
fork and actually start pipelines.
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2131 for more context.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/531>
This new API allow resuming a task if it was paused, while leaving it to
stopped stated if it was stopped or not started yet. This new API can be
useful for callback driver workflow, where you basically want to pause and
resume the task when buffers are notified while avoiding the race with a
gst_task_stop() coming from another thread.
This is something bindings can't handle and it causes leaks. Instead
move the ref_sink() to the explicit, new() constructors.
This means that abstract classes, and anything that can have subclasses,
will have to do ref_sink() in their new() function now. Specifically
this affects GstClock and GstControlSource.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743062
Use g_object_new() instead which nowadays has a shortcut for the
no-properties check. It still does an extra GType check in the
function guard, but there's a pending patch to remove that
and it's hardly going to be a performance issue in practice,
even less so on a system that's compiled without run-time checks.
Alternative would be to move to the new g_object_new_properties()
with a fallback define for older glib versions, but it makes the
code look more unwieldy and doesn't seem worth it.
Fixes deprecation warnings when building against newer GLib versions.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780903
This ensures that all async operations (started from gst_element_call_async())
have been completed and so there is no extra thread running.
Fix races when checking for leaks on unit tests as some of those
operations were still running when the leaks tracer was checking for
leaked objects.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768577
If a task thread is calling pause on it self and the
controlling/"main" thread stops the task, it could end in a race
where gst_task_func loops and then checks for paused after the
controlling thread just changed the task state to stopped.
Hence the task would actually call func again even though it was
both paused and stopped.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740001
They are very confusing for people, and more often than not
also just not very accurate. Seeing 'last reviewed: 2005' in
your docs is not very confidence-inspiring. Let's just remove
those comments.
Add private replacements for deprecated functions such as
g_mutex_new(), g_mutex_free(), g_cond_new() etc., mostly
to avoid the deprecation warnings. We can't change most of
these in 0.10 because they're part of our API and ABI.
prctl is supposed to take 5 arguments. It used to work with 2 arguments on some
versions of libc because it is defined as a varags function there.
See #611911
