[gst-devel] Reentrancy patch for gst_parse_lauch and flex version requirements

[Marc-André Lureau]

As tim said on irc,

"gconf does the parsing only when going from NULL => READY I believe, so it
probably doesn't run into this problem"

And tim is right, you won't see the problem :)

You have to know that the most difficult case is when you are parsing the
same string recursively:

$ gst-launch element adescription="anotherelement !..." ...

And for the moment, gst-launch (the parsing) crash when you do that.

Cheers,

On 7/30/06, Zaheer Merali <zaheermerali at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Having spoken in the channel, this re-entrancy issue could potentially
> be a problem for the gconf plugins, gconfaudiosrc, gconfaudiosink etc.
>
> It would howver be nice to be shown valgrind output of a gst-launch
> line with gconfaudiosink in for example.
>
> Zaheer
>
> On 7/30/06, Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > This weekend Marc-Andre has provided a patch in
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349180
> > to make the gst_parse_launch reentrant.
> >
> > Unfortunately Fedora core 4/5 ships an ancient version of flex which
> > can't do the reentrancy. As this is only a build dependency, what do you
> > think about bumping the requirement. Just for your information flext
> > 2.5.4.a ist from 1997. The release from 2003 would do it. So we would
> > not require anything bleeding edge.
> >
> > Stefan & Marc-Andre
>

-- 
Marc-André Lureau, GSmartMix
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