[Branch the thread for a separate suggestion...] Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > Le dimanche 18 octobre 2009 20:13:15 Robert Hancock, vous avez écrit : >>> From the earlier thread, I reckon that ALSA developers consider that >>> this >>> is an upper-layer issue. Maybe so, but then how is the upper-layer >>> supposed to find which file descriptors ALSA-lib has opened - if any? >>> Conversely, if ALSA- lib won't tell while file descriptors it is using, >>> what could possibly be the use case for not closing those on exec? >> I agree that it's a difficult problem for an app that wants to fork >> and exec another process.. I'd think really should be some way for an >> app to control the CLOEXEC flag for the file descriptors that alsa-lib >> has open.. > <snip> > > That said, I still fail to see any potential use case to not set the > flag. > Since ALSA-lib won't let the application know about the file handles, any > application cannot a use them across exec() in the first place. Is snd_pcm_poll_descriptors() adequate for this particular issue? Regards, -- Daniel Yek. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
