Re: KDE, Qt3 and Amarok

[Thiago Macieira <thiago@xxxxxxx>]

Bart Van Assche wrote:
>I'm neither a Qt nor a KDE expert. Can you please have a look at the
>program below and tell me whether or not the programming style is
>acceptable ? The program below triggers several data races with Qt3,
>but does not trigger any data races with Qt4.

The program is wrong.

Qt 3 *requires* you to make a deep copy of the QString using QDeepCopy 
(see http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/qdeepcopy.html) before passing it to 
another thread.

That's what Amarok is failing to do.

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