On Tue, 05.06.07 20:29, Ed Schouten (ed at fxq.nl) wrote: Hi! > * Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl> wrote: > > I'm still thinking of a nice way to work around this. Anyway, here's a > > first version of the patch, which also makes the mmap() calls work on > > FreeBSD. > > I think it would be a lot better if shared memory (see shm_open(3)) > wouldn't be by filename, but by descriptor (with sendmsg(2)). That way > you could immediately unlink the shared memory file after opening, which > will cause PulseAudio to never leak any shared memory buffers (which I > guess it now will when the client/daemon crashes). We have been talking about adding something like this to PA. Unfortunately fd passing is not portable. Espcially not fd passing of POSIX SHM ids. Nonetheless: patches are always welcome! Might be rather difficult to hack though, because shm segments are not just shared by a single client and a single pa daemon, but also be multiple clients. > I'm not an expert when it comes to hacking around in PulseAudio source > code, so I guess I can't help you folks with this. Please let me know > when such fixes are in the pipeline; I'd love to help you guys/gals test > such stuff. :) Please file a wishlist bug about this. I will have another look into this eventually when I find the time to, However, it's not a top priority item on my todo list. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
