am 78158db5: Hail-Mary attempt to avoid apparent blocking problems in readEvents().

Merge commit '78158db51029e7dbe160e60af0deb7594bec051d' into froyo-plus-aosp

* commit '78158db51029e7dbe160e60af0deb7594bec051d':
  Hail-Mary attempt to avoid apparent blocking problems in readEvents().