On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 02:13 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 26.03.08 12:04, Andrew Bartlett (abartlet@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > The best thing to do is to use the DBus session bus. Have pulseaudio > > > > grab a bus name such as org.pulseaudio.SessionDaemon. > > > > > > Uh? Grab a name for nothing? Also, this would prohibit multiple > > > instances of PA for different users. > > > > Another very useful way to deal with this situation (which is what Samba > > does) is to take an fcntl lock on the PID file. This will nicely go > > away with the process, and clearly no other process will grab a lock on > > a pulse-audio.pid file. > > We already use POSIX locking for making sure that access to the PID > file is properly serialized. Seriously; use D-Bus and abstract sockets, and then you can avoid all the icky, nasty races that are inherent with PID files. PID files need to die. Dan > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
