On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 14:27 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> Hmm, just found something when looking at readable_size(). In case of
> stream holes, _readable_size() would return more than can actually be
> read by simple_read() without blocking.
>
> Do you think this limitation is acceptable? If not, do you think
> pa_simple_readable_size should just return the length of the first
> memblock like this:
>
> for (;;) {
> pa_stream_peek(&data, &length);
> if (data)
> return length;
> pa_stream_drop(length);
> }
Returning less than what really is readable doesn't sound like a good
idea; principle of least surprise etc... We don't currently have the
means for querying the "readable size without holes" in pa_stream or
pa_memblockq, but those means could be added.
--
Tanu
