Emulating behavior of gst-launch -e in gst program

[Krzysztof Konopko]

On 04/02/13 10:44, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
> On 02/02/13 23:39, Tim-Philipp Müller wrote:
>> On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 16:58 +0000, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
>>
>>> I think that gst-launch doesn't take the best approach to signal
>>> handling.  Use signalfd instead [1]. An example might be useful [2].
>>>
>>> You get a file descriptor which you can watch it with g_io_add_watch()
>>> [3].
>>
>> Yes, that would indeed be better. However, we'll probably have to keep
>> the old code for compatibility reasons anyway. Feel free to make a
>> patch :)
>>
>> Cheers
>>  -Tim
>>
> 
> Oh yes, I'd like to grapple with it, although signalfd() is not directly
> available in all libc implementations, e. g. some uClibc versions do not
> provide it so need to make a syscall directly (need to roll out
> autotools/preprocessor machinery to cater for this).
> 
> Also for SIGSEGV (and probably SIGBUS) still need to use the classic
> approach (these are some of which signals where originally designed for).
> 
> So need to give it a bit of thinking in case of gst-launch. In user apps
> it seems to be of less hassle.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kris
> 
>

I gave it a go:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693481

Cheers,
Kris


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