manually revert 4b3043cc and 141e6fb8181; add detailed explanatory comment

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/libs/pbd/pbd/abstract_ui.cc b/libs/pbd/pbd/abstract_ui.cc
index b0e26e3cb5..e186161cf9 100644
--- a/libs/pbd/pbd/abstract_ui.cc
+++ b/libs/pbd/pbd/abstract_ui.cc
@@ -80,21 +80,7 @@ AbstractUI<RequestObject>::AbstractUI (const string& name)
 	{
 		Glib::Threads::Mutex::Lock lm (request_buffer_map_lock);
 		for (vector<EventLoop::ThreadBufferMapping>::iterator t = tbm.begin(); t != tbm.end(); ++t) {
-			RequestBuffer* rb = static_cast<RequestBuffer*> (t->request_buffer);
-
-			/* it could be dead */
-
-			if (!rb->dead) {
-				request_buffers[t->emitting_thread] = rb;
-			} else {
-				/* don't delete it, because we have no way to
-				   remove it from the
-				   EventLoop::thread_request_buffers map here,
-				   which means that we will rediscover the
-				   pointer in the future, and indirect to check
-				   "dead". 
-				*/
-			}
+			request_buffers[t->emitting_thread] = static_cast<RequestBuffer*> (t->request_buffer);
 		}
 	}
 }