gypsy stop

Ross Burton ross at openedhand.com
Wed Nov 3 00:32:12 PDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 23:56 +0100, Juha.Vuolle at nokia.com wrote:
> (apologies not exactly a geoclue question but some of you may well
> know as same domain)

Yes, we really need a gypsy list...
 
> A basic question;  if one has called gypsy_device_start() to start GPS
> device, should one also call gypsy_device_stop()?
> The doubt I have is that I do not wish to really stop() the device if
> there is any other app using it, but more like ‘unreference’ it.

Your doubt is correct.  The stop/start logic needs to be changed in the
daemon to be a counted reference instead of enforced stop.  Patches
welcome...

Ross
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