[Gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 135597] New - make gstosselement properly deal with symlinks

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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135597

Changed by teuf at users.sourceforge.net.

--- shadow/135597	Fri Feb 27 08:48:09 2004
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+Bug#: 135597
+Product: GStreamer
+Version: HEAD CVS
+OS: Linux
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: normal
+Priority: Normal
+Component: gst-plugins
+AssignedTo: gstreamer-maint at bugzilla.gnome.org                            
+ReportedBy: teuf at users.sourceforge.net               
+QAContact: gstreamer-maint at bugzilla.gnome.org
+TargetMilestone: HEAD
+URL: 
+Summary: make gstosselement properly deal with symlinks
+
+On my system (alsa + oss emulation), /dev/dsp is a symlink to /dev/dsp0
+When trying to enumerate the available devices, gstosselement doesn't
+follow the /dev/dsp symlink, and thus fails to see it is a char device, and
+it doesn't test /dev/dsp0 at all.
+The attached patch makes gstosselement follow the symlink, but after
+thinking a bit more about it, it can create aliasing issues if it's a
+symlink to /dev/dspN, N > 1
+Maybe it would be better not to follow symlinks, and to probe both /dev/dsp
+and /dev/dsp0.