Re: [PATCH] wmp/tests: Stop crash when setting a media option.

[Zebediah Figura]

On 29/03/18 10:16, Jacek Caban wrote:
> On 03/29/2018 04:36 PM, Zebediah Figura wrote:
> > For what it's worth, it seems to me that it'd be more desirable to work
> > around a Windows bug rather than skip the test entirely.
>
> I'm not sure I agree. If we suspect that it messes ref counting, you
> can't be sure that the workaround will make it behave correctly, all you
> know is that it happens to avoid a crash. It's likely that the library
> may be in a wrong state under the hood. If we hit another crash on this
> platform, we will need to invest more time on investigating it for
> questionable benefit.
>
> Jacek

I see; that's a fair concern.