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Bug 1714

Summary: Joystick subsystem is corrupted if you unplug the first of >1 joysticks
Product: SDL Reporter: (disabled) Jørgen Tjernø <jorgen>
Component: joystickAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: critical    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Attachments: Proposed fix

Description (disabled) Jørgen Tjernø 2013-02-08 10:55:34 UTC 
If you connect two joysticks, then remove the first one, the internal state of the joystick subsystem is corrupted. Calling things like SDL_JoystickOpen(0) and SDL_JoystickGetDeviceGUID(0) will segfault (dereference NULL).
Comment 1 (disabled) Jørgen Tjernø 2013-02-08 11:12:31 UTC 
Created attachment 1038 [details]
Proposed fix