At Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:38:04 +0400,
Paul Fertser wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:33:15AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > It looks like we're talking about different things. You seem to be
> > > talking about external PCM plugins, i'm talking about external functions
> > > for the "hook" PCM plugin. The code i question is in pcm/pcm_hooks.c
> > > in function snd_pcm_hook_add_conf:
> > >
> > > if (err >= 0) {
> > > if (args && snd_config_get_string(args, &str) >= 0) {
> > > err = snd_config_search_definition(root,
> > > "hook_args", str, &args);
> > > if (err < 0)
> > > SNDERR("unknown hook_args %s", str);
> > > else
> > > err = install_func(pcm, args);
> > > snd_config_delete(args);
> > > } else
> > > err = install_func(pcm, args);
> > > snd_dlclose(h);
> > > }
> >
> > Ah, I understand now. Yes, this looks like a bug.
> > Meanwhile, it makes another bug if we just remove it. There would be
> > no dlclose(), then. It'd need resource tracking.
>
> Exactly the reason i haven't tried to make a proper patch ;)
>
> > A lack of dlclose is no serious bug, though.
>
> I hope you know better than me ;)
>
> > So... just removing snd_dlclose() there fixes your problem?
> > If yes, I'll commit the fix.
>
> TBH, i've not tried but i'm pretty sure it will fix the problem. I
> tried with dlopen workaround (to increase the refcounter) in install
> function and i tried with LD_PRELOAD'ing the library before starting
> an alsa app; both workarounds worked.
OK, I fixed this on GIT now.
Takashi
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