From: "Chris Rankin" <rankincj@yahoo.com>
To: Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BUG] alsa-lib leaves sound device open for child processes
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:35:45 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030207193545.84329.qmail@web40602.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
--- Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> not clearly so. there are very few resources
> accessed via a file
> descriptor that require this being done.
You think? Try unmounting a filesystem or unloading
the ide-cd kernel module if (say) xscreensaver has
been spawned by (say) xine, but xine has carelessly
leaked a file descriptor to a movie file, DVD device
etc. (But not with current versions of xine... ;-)
> the fact that an application has to understand this
> only adds to the
> problems with the block-on-open design.
Save me from application programmers who don't
understand what they're doing... ;-/!
Chris
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-07 19:35 Chris Rankin [this message]
[not found] <20030205205905.7800db0c.sebastian_kapfer@web.de>
2003-02-05 22:39 ` [BUG] alsa-lib leaves sound device open for child processes Chris Rankin
2003-02-06 14:40 ` Sebastian Kapfer
2003-02-06 23:10 ` Chris Rankin
2003-02-07 13:03 ` Paul Davis
2003-02-07 13:58 ` Chris Rankin
2003-02-07 15:22 ` Paul Davis
2003-02-07 16:13 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-02-07 19:54 ` Chris Rankin
2003-02-07 14:37 ` Sebastian Kapfer
2003-02-07 19:46 ` Chris Rankin
2003-02-08 11:50 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-02-08 13:55 ` Sebastian Kapfer
2003-02-08 19:45 ` Sebastian Kapfer
2003-02-08 19:53 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-02-12 11:54 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-02-12 12:46 ` Jaroslav Kysela
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-05 18:50 Chris Rankin
2003-02-03 22:16 Sebastian Kapfer
2003-02-05 11:20 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-02-05 12:42 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-02-05 13:05 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-02-05 13:55 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-02-05 14:03 ` Chris Rankin
2003-02-05 14:16 ` Paul Davis
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