On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:03:35PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > Hi :-) > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:46:35AM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > > > Spoke too soon. The game "Baldurs Gate The Original Saga", available on > > gog.com, bundles wine and libpulse. > > > > Will games which statically link libpulse, or bundles its own > version of it, be affected by the global mempool not being in a > shared memory? > > My understanding is that they may be affected only if they're > using the Mic as an _in-game_ input mechanism. > > If that's indeed the case, then we can drop the latest patch of > this series. In all cases, the next patch series will transform > the global mempool to a per-client one. By doing so, we can match > the type of global mempool shared-memory with client needs.. > ah, forgot something .. A benefit for transforming the global mempool to memfds by default now is that a follow-up patch can be quickly developed to statically remove POSIX SHM support through a --disable-posix-shm configure flag. Doing so, we can build a memfd-only libpulse version that can be bundled in xdg-app runtimes going forward .. [1] [2] If this is deemed not too high a priority and the danger from any statically-linked or bundled libraries is higher, then let's merge patches #1 to #10 and I'll later post a modified version of patch #11 that only transforms the srbchannel mempool to memfds. Thanks, [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/24125 [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/680642/ -- Darwish http://darwish.chasingpointers.com
