Lennart Poettering wrote: >> I can certainly see the argument that if an assert is hit as a result of >> something in libcanberra then there is no reason at all to crash the >> whole app. > > In C land an error in a library always has the power to bring you > whole process down. If you manage to hit an assert in PA or > libcanberra, then you found a programming error. Indeed. I await your forthcoming alsa plugin patches with interest :p Thanks for the explanations on this thread. I've learned some more stuff again from the replies. Apologies for the somewhat out of order status of some of the replies (Gmane was a bit slow!). Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
