On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 23:09 +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > On 11/04/2012 02:22 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 19:51 +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > >> Returning NULL seems to be the right thing to do here, even if > >> gnome-control-center does not handle that very well IIRC. So we might > >> need an additional patch in g-c-c. > >> So assuming I commit a patch doing that. If somebody else wants to add > >> logic to figure out how large the hole is, that could be discussed > >> separately. > >> Any objections? > > > > It's not clear what you meant by "add logic to figure out how large the > > hole is". Add to where? pa_stream_peek() or gnome-control-center? > > I was referring to your earlier comment "An addition: the client > probably wants to know how large the hole is.", i e pa_stream_peek. > > > To me, reporting the hole length in the "nbytes" parameter of > > pa_stream_peek() seems like the right thing to do, so I hope your patch > > will do this. > > It does not: I was just suggesting to discuss that separately. Ok. Well, I'm suggesting to not make these issues separate, since it's a small thing to decide and implement, and doing a separate fix would be "fixing a fix". Does someone have an issue with returning the hole size in the nbytes argument? -- Tanu