On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 10:40 +0800, Lin, Mengdong wrote: > >When shall I use this function instead of > pa_sink_input_assert_unref() to destroy a sink input object? > > > > I made a spelling mistake. I mean pa_sink_input_ unref() not > pa_sink_input_assert_unref(). > > So my question is: When shall I use pa_sink_input_kill() instead of > pa_sink_input_ unref() to destroy a sink input object? pa_sink_input_kill() signals that you want to disconnect the sink-input from the sink and signal to the creator of the sink-input that this is being done (so, for example, protocol-native.c will clean up client streams when this happens. pa_sink_input_unref() is only for managing the object lifetime -- you will have matching refs and unrefs around code that is storing pointers to the sink-input. It would be incorrect to try to try to kill the sink-input by driving down the refcount out of turn. Hope this helps, Arun
