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            <b><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW --- - crash because of null string on solaris"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55607#c3">Comment # 3</a>
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   title="NEW --- - crash because of null string on solaris"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55607">bug 55607</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:pierre-bugzilla@ossman.eu" title="Pierre Ossman <pierre-bugzilla@ossman.eu>"> <span class="fn">Pierre Ossman</span></a>
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        <pre>Threads not created by PulseAudio however can lack a name. In this case the
main thread.

Alternative patch using pa_strnull():

Index: src/pulsecore/log.c
===================================================================
--- src/pulsecore/log.c    (revision 27649)
+++ src/pulsecore/log.c    (working copy)
@@ -303,9 +303,9 @@
     pa_vsnprintf(text, sizeof(text), format, ap);

     if ((_flags & PA_LOG_PRINT_META) && file && line > 0 && func)
-        pa_snprintf(location, sizeof(location), "[%s][%s:%i %s()] ",
pa_thread_get_name(pa_thread_self()), file, line, func);
+        pa_snprintf(location, sizeof(location), "[%s][%s:%i %s()] ",
pa_strnull(pa_thread_get_name(pa_thread_self())), file, line, func);
     else if ((_flags & (PA_LOG_PRINT_META|PA_LOG_PRINT_FILE)) && file)
-        pa_snprintf(location, sizeof(location), "[%s] %s: ",
pa_thread_get_name(pa_thread_self()), pa_path_get_filename(file));
+        pa_snprintf(location, sizeof(location), "[%s] %s: ",
pa_strnull(pa_thread_get_name(pa_thread_self())), pa_path_get_filename(file));
     else
         location[0] = 0;</pre>
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