Hello, Apparently autospawning has stopped working on new macOS versions: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105857 I cc'd a few people who have contributed to PulseAudio's macOS support in the past (plus the bug reporter) - would any of you like to fix the problem? The bug report mentions a workaround of setting a particular environment variable, but it's not really good practice to set environment variables from libpulse (it's not thread-safe, and messing with applications' environment isn't nice anyway). According to [1], using posix_spawn() instead of fork() and execv() would be the best solution. That probably makes it impossible to use the "spawn API" that can applications can use to run their own code at various steps of the forking process, but it seems unlikely that applications would be using the spawn API anyway (at least I don't know what it would be good for). Another possible solution that comes to mind would be to replace autospawning with starting pulseaudio as a service on macOS, similar to how on Linux many distributions use systemd to start pulseaudio as a user service instead of using the autospawning mechanism. [1] http://sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2017/6/5/Objective-C_and_fork_in_macOS_1013.html -- Tanu https://liberapay.com/tanuk https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
