[pulseaudio-discuss] Expand the simple API?

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 14:27 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> Hmm, just found something when looking at readable_size(). In case of 
> stream holes, _readable_size() would return more than can actually be 
> read by simple_read() without blocking.
> 
> Do you think this limitation is acceptable? If not, do you think 
> pa_simple_readable_size should just return the length of the first 
> memblock like this:
> 
>    for (;;) {
>      pa_stream_peek(&data, &length);
>      if (data)
>        return length;
>      pa_stream_drop(length);
>    }

Returning less than what really is readable doesn't sound like a good
idea; principle of least surprise etc... We don't currently have the
means for querying the "readable size without holes" in pa_stream or
pa_memblockq, but those means could be added.

-- 
Tanu