[whatwg] Worker feedback

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Michael Nordman <michaeln at google.com> wrote:

> Consider three threads
> PageA
> PageB
> PluginC
>
> PageA
> -grabs storage lock
>
> PluginC
> -calls out to PageB (everything in NPAPI is synchronous)
> -now waiting for PageB to return
>
> PageB
> -while handling the plugins callback, attempts to grab the storage lock
> -BLOCKED waiting for PageA to release it
>
> PageA
> -calls plugin (sync method call)
> -BLOCK waiting indirectly for PageB
>
> == DEADLOCK
>

What happens if we don't have storage locks but PageB does a sync XHR or
alert() inside the callout from the plugin? All the other pages containing
plugins of that type lock up?

Rob
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