Due to a round-off error, snd_pcm_avail could in some cases return 0 even though more data could be written to the stream. This was discovered by Maarten Lankhorst [1], and there is also a test program available that triggers this error [2]. [1] https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-April/009935.html [2] https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20110420/3c852d6e/attachment.c -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0001-Pulse-Fix-snd_pcm_avail-returning-0-in-some-cases.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 1119 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20110421/51c946c1/attachment.bin>