[gst-devel] httpsrc with bad URL: while(1) { malloc(); };

[Michael Rothwell]

0.4.0 httpsrc seems to eat a lot of memory. When doing this to test my
installation ...

gst-launch httpsrc location=http://kronk/dukes.mp3 ! mad ! osssink

... no sound plays, because the URL is incorrect and that file doesn't
exist. So, gst-launch going into a loop doing the following, according
to strace.

read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
brk(0x91cf000)                          = 0x91cf000
read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
brk(0x91d0000)                          = 0x91d0000
read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
brk(0x91d1000)                          = 0x91d1000

It also grows quite large in size. it consumes a few MB/sec. If I have
the URL right, it seems to work just fine. I would expect httpsrc to do
something other than malloc() in a loop if the URL isn't valid.
gnomevfssrc, for instance, simply aborts:
 
  RUNNING pipeline
  ERROR: gnomevfssrc0: opening vfs
	file"http://kronk.house/dukes.mp3" (File not found)
  pipeline doesn't want to play



Any suggestions?

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Michael Rothwell
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