Re: Another multithreading bug (I think)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 6 Sep 2006, at 14:31, Wim Oudshoorn wrote:

> So it seems that an NSConnection is deallocated but still exists in  
> the connection_table.
>
> Looking at the NSConnection code,  a connection is added to this  
> table in the
> -init... method, and removed in the -invalidate method.
<snip>

> To me this looks not very thread safe.   So I see if garding this
> with the _refGate works.   But because it is so tricky to reproduce
> (any logging seems to make the bug disappear) it is hard to confirm
> if the fix is enough.

Thanks ... well spotted.
I've modified the -release method to protect the check of the retain  
count using the connection table lock as you suggest.