behold the might of apachelogger! reintroducing the lock member... there is a genuine problem with not aborting on 0-byt
e reads... if we are stuck reading because no data arrives and for whatever reason unlock gets called (as is for example when gstreamer stops) the unlocking will not result in a return from read making gstreamer wait and wait and wait and thus block the appplication's event loop introducing a nice and cosy deadlock