From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lennart Poettering Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Asynchronous notification in ALSA - I/O Plugin - Pulseaudio Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 00:29:36 +0200 Message-ID: <20080521222936.GB12214@tango.0pointer.de> References: <18027403.3701211352364970.JavaMail.root@intra> Reply-To: General PulseAudio Discussion Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: pulseaudio-discuss-bounces@mail.0pointer.de Errors-To: pulseaudio-discuss-bounces@mail.0pointer.de To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wed, 21.05.08 12:47, Takashi Iwai (tiwai@suse.de) wrote: > > > I have experimental patches to add async support to ioplug. With a > > > quick test using jack plugin, it seems working somehow. Will post > > > them alsa-devel now. > > > > Thank you! I tested these with Firefox + Flash 9 + Pulseaudio, and while > > sound output works, quitting any Flash application will freeze firefox. > > It's a showstopper, then. Could you figure out in which code does it > freeze? My change is just to add async call, so it sounds like that > another hidden bug is hit by my change... That freeze is an unfixable race condition that Flash has when shutting down audio. See the explanation down on http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/267 Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4