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Must poll child status in VideoState::action

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by locating VideoState::action and tracing how child status is checked during the slideshow loop. Reproduce or inspect the reported race condition, then verify that child status is polled reliably before considering the issue resolved; the payload names no file or test.

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Description

daemon defect slideshow-0.3
Automatically imported from Trac.
Originally reported by 'ext' as #106.

Minor race condition.

Dominant language
C++
Stars
8
Forks
2
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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