[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 505770] gst_element_get_state may deadlock

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------- Comment #6 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2009-03-18 16:35 UTC -------
> Do you think it's interesting to unblock a _get_state() with an error
> when an error message is posted on the element? I think it's possible to do
> this and I'm starting to think that it would be a nice thing. Opinions?

I think that would probably be a good idea. It's just what people expect, and
there's not a lot of code out there that really gets this stuff right (because
it is very tedious if you don't have an entirely async state machine). And I
don't expect anything to break if we change this.


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