[pulseaudio-discuss] New application using PulseAudio and Simple API question

[Ed Schouten]

* CJ van den Berg <cj at vdbonline.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:19:45PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > * CJ van den Berg <cj at vdbonline.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:39:26AM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > > > When we want to support chroot(), we must open the device before the
> > > > actual chroot() call and only close the device when shutting down. This
> > > > is what the OSS module does, for example. When I look at the API of the
> > > > Simple API, there is no way to change the the pa_sample_spec afterwards.
> > > 
> > > Why not just hardlink the pulseaudio socket (ie. /tmp/pulse-${USER}/native 
> > > or /var/run/pulse/native) into the chroot?
> > 
> > Because I'd like the application to not require any resources while
> > chroot()'ed. That's also why the application calls res_init() before the
> > chroot()-call, which causes stuff that needs DNS (AudioScrobbler, HTTP
> > audio streams) to Just Work (tm).
> 
> It requires the resource (ie. the pulseaudio socket) either way. Whether it 
> opens it before the chroot or after makes no difference. Either way the 
> process has an open file descriptor that connects it to pulseaudio that may 
> (or may not) be a security risk.

Of course I'll always need the socket, but it would be cool if users
wouldn't have to hardlink the socket to get music inside the chroot
working. I took a look at the PulseAudio source code and it looks like
it isn't possible to change the pa_sample_spec of an open stream (see
stream.c).

Maybe this evening I'll take a look if it's possible to delay the
opening of the stream when the `ss' argument is NULL, so I can call
pa_simple_new() to already instantiate the connection to the daemon
before the chroot() call.

Yours,
-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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