Problem in getting File descriptor from pipeline

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mo, 2014-01-06 at 15:41 +0530, Keyur Patel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In our embedded device when device goes in low memory state due to some operation in other application, we get error in allocation of buffer and two fds are created but due to error one fd which was due to "dup()" was unable to close automatically on releasing pipeline.
> 
> Hence application fd count is getting increasing more and more.
> 
> This is a bug in gst-plugin-good.
> 
> I need to release both fds in erroneous condition hence i required 2nd one.
> But its not possible to get 2nd fd (created by dup) at application level.
> 
> So due to that need to apply patch for plugin code.

Yes, that's something that needs to be fixed in gst-plugins-good. Can
you debug the problem and provide a patch, or provide a testcase to
reproduce it on another system?

Note that 0.10 is also no longer maintained, and this particular problem
might also be fixed already in 1.x. There were many v4l2 related
changes.


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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com
Expertise, Straight from the Source
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