[icecast-dev] redundant code ?

[Mihai RUSU]

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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Michael Smith wrote:
> >
> > Is this code redundant ?
> 
> No. The first check comes early - it allows us to reject the client 
> immediately if there's no chance of it being allowed in.

Ok.

> Then, in the second check, we've already found the source that this client is 
> being connected to, and we check again - this time, if the check succeeds, 
> the global client count is incremented.

You mean that beeing multithreaded application the counter may have been 
incremented from the last check so better to check it again just before 
increment (while holding a lock on it). Thanks, Im having dificulties 
understanding all this as I have never (yet) programmed multi-threaded 
applications heh :)

> Mike

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