[pulseaudio-discuss] systemd socket activation support

[Colin Guthrie]

Peter Meerwald wrote on 19/10/14 22:50:
> Hi,
> 
>> use of the hacking time I had available would be to allow PulseAudio to be
>> activated via systemd's socket activation system.
> 
> how does this work relate to the systemd socket activation patches by 
> Campagna / Jardon / Crequy listed on http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/PatchStatus/?


They don't really. Sadly I started playing with this before I realised
those patched existed. I did speak to Arun before and he did say there
was a bug open about it but I stupidly didn't look for it first (I
assumed it was a feature request rather than an implementation+patch -
d'oh!). That said, I have taken a slightly different approach which I
think solves one of the problems of the original patch (that is matching
up to the appropriate socket= argument (or the default value thereof)
when loading module-native-protocol-unix.


I did add a comment to the bug when I noticed it after :D
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78701

Some bits are quite similar, but I did do a few things which I think are
nice to distributors (like adding the appropriate
socket.target.wants/pulseaudio.socket symlinks.

Ultimately it seem work on those patches stalled. I am happen to take
over and finish them off or incorporate the missing bits from my series
from the other one. Either way, I'll try and get this finalised in the
very near future as my experience running it this way is much nicer.

Cheers!

Col


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