#17235: [Media Kit] Distressed/Zombie nodes create ports that cause message
timeouts
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Reporter: waddlesplash | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Kits/Media Kit | Version: R1/beta3
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Platform: All
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In hrev55048, pulkomandy added some checks to MultiAudioNode to sanitize
inputs. These tests actually trigger for the usb_audio driver (not yet
included in builds) in some cases at present, and thus the node is created
but left in an invalid not-quite-initialized state.
When the media_server or Media preferences attempt to query the node, they
get no response and hit timeouts. Most of these queries are blocking, so
they lock up the window for a few seconds at a time before a timeout is
hit.
What should we do in these cases? There is not really a good way to check
if a node is "alive" in the Media Kit so far as I can see besides simply
hitting a timeout when querying its control port.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/17235>
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