The function will be used in pa_sink_input_new() and
pa_source_output_new(). The fallback parameters are used to merge the
data in the format info with the sink/source sample spec and channel
map, when the format info is lacking some information.
This also fixes an issue in pa_format_info_to_sample_spec(): it did
no validation for the channels value. Now the validation is taken care
of in pa_format_info_get_channels().
This also fixes an issue in pa_format_info_to_sample_spec(): it did
no validation for the rate value. Now the validation is taken care of
in pa_format_info_get_rate().
I will need to use the function from outside libpulse.
I added the channel map argument, because the function will be called
from another function that is expected to initialize the channel map.
I don't know if it's in practice necessary, but it shouldn't do any
harm either.
Quoting Ryan Lortie from [1]:
I assumed from my reading of the Linux code ("cap_clear()...") that it
was clearing all capabilities of the process when in fact it is only
clearing the "special to root" capabilities.
The FreeBSD version of the code indeed clears _all_ capabilities beyond
ones that the process already has (ie: cannot open any new files, create
sockets, etc.)
This has a pretty obvious adverse effect on pulseaudio's ability to do
what it needs to do -- indeed, it bombs out pretty quickly due to an
inability to read its own config file.
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72580#c11
Hello.
Over time, I became aware of several instances of tempting but
semantically incorrect usage of PulseAudio API (one from my own bad
proposal of "improving" Wine, one from Parole media player and one
from Webkit-GTK). I want to document these gotchas so that other
developers don't fall for that. See the attached patch.
I have checked that the rendered HTML is correct, but need someone to
confirm the factual accuracy of the proposed changes and, possibly, to
improve the wording.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
I don't like the expression "this Pulseaudio" (even though that's
originally written by me), just "PulseAudio" is enough. Also, on
FreeBSD there's no libcap, so let's refer only to "capabilities".
cap_init() and friends are Linux-specific, so only use them if we're on
Linux.
Add support for FreeBSD capabilities if we find <sys/capability.h> to be
available there.
Add an #else (not Linux or FreeBSD) case with an #error requesting
contributions for other platforms.
This patch keeps the cap_init check in configure.ac but removes the
error if it fails. This will ensure we link to -lcap if needed, but
won't fail for the case that capabilities are part of the core system
(as on FreeBSD).
We do however, modify the header check to ensure we fail if there is no
<sys/capability.h> at all and we are on a system where it could be
installed. The logic here is that it is better to give the user the
chance to install it than it is to proceed silently with a disabled
security feature on a system where it could easily be supported.
--without-caps remains an option if the user wants to force it.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72580
The journal is a component of systemd, that captures Syslog messages,
Kernel log messages, initial RAM disk and early boot messages as well
as messages written to STDOUT/STDERR of all services, indexes them and
makes this available to the user.
It can be used in parallel, or in place of a traditional syslog daemon,
such as rsyslog or syslog-ng.
The journal offers a couple of improvements over traditional logging
facilities (e.g. advanced filtering capabilities).
This patch adds support for logging directly to the journal using its
native API.
while ((r = pa_mainloop_iterate(m, 1, retval)) >= 0)
;
if (r == -2)
return 1;
else if (r < 0)
return -1;
else
return 0;
the last else is never reached, discovered by coverity
Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
Generating docs for file mainloop-api.h...
/home/pmeerw/src/pa-missing/src/pulse/mainloop-api.h:118: warning: Found unknown command `\pa_threaded_mainloop'
Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
I think this makes the code a bit nicer to read and write. This also
reduces the chances of off-by-one errors when checking the bounds of
channel count values.
I think this makes the code a bit nicer to read and write. This also
reduces the chances of off-by-one errors when checking the bounds of
sample rate values.
I think this makes the code a bit nicer to read and write. This also
reduces the chances of off-by-one errors when checking the bounds of
the sample format value.
set_scheduler() assumes that if sys/resource.h was found then we will
find RLIMIT_RTTIME there, but this is a non-POSIX extension on Linux.
Change the check to ensure that RLIMIT_RTTIME is actually defined.
Linux indeed defines this as a macro, and POSIX specifies that the other
RLIMIT_ constants must be macros, so having this as an #ifdef seems
correct.
bootstrap.sh uses some non-POSIX features of bash, so we can't use
/bin/sh. Unlike /bin/sh, bash can be installed anywhere in the path, so
we should use /usr/bin/env to find it.
This helps systems that have bash in /usr/local/bin, for example.
