[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 576563] pidgin crashes on exit in gst_plugin_ext_dep_free()

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  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | Ver: 0.10.22

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------- Comment #7 from Etan Reisner  2009-03-25 14:18 UTC -------
I believe the referent of "it" in "it breaks the world on some Real Unices" is
the signal hack needed for versions of GStreamer that do not allow pidgin to
disable forking. Or at least that is what my reading of
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/1496 is.

It appears that we (the pidgin developers) might be able to move this child
reaping to another part of pidgin which may or may not be beneficial to the
original problem here (and to any new problems that may come up if GStreamer
moves to g_spawn:ing a helper program). I don't know enough to say.

And yes, the one second time out was entirely arbitrary but it appears to have
worked well enough so far (for those few people using GStreamer versions older
than 0.10.10).


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