[gst-devel] plugin loader segfault handler

[Benjamin Otte]

Is it possible to put the segfault handler into gst-register.c somehow or
is that not possible because gst-register doesn't know which plugin is
currently loaded?

I'd prefer not to have signal handlers in a lib, so if there's a way
around that...

Benjamin


On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> Hey,
>
> lately xvid is throwing segfaults at me while loading plugins.  Ronald
> said he saw the same.
>
> Anyway, I got fed up with the fact that gst-register segfaults.  This is
> the one thing that isn't supposed to segfault :)
>
> So, I implemented a trapper in gstplugin.c, which gets turned on and off
> for each plugin around loading.  It's probably not reentrant and
> whatever but I don't think that matters much in this case, or is at all
> possible.
>
> You can run any app with --gst-enable-segfault to disable this trapper
> so you can still debug segfaults on loading when they happen.
>
> But in the general case, it will print out a nice message on what to do
> if this happens, and that's the important thing.
>
> If this breaks anything, let me know.  I'm specifically interested in
> cases where the filename it prints out for the offending plugin is
> garbled.
>
> Thanks
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
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