[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Run a user specified program on suspend/resume.

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 10:36 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Sorry for the late reply.
> 
> When starting child processes, there is a helper function in 
> src/pulsecore/start-child.c that you can use. It should cover the 
> platform and security questions you're having. (Or at least put the ball 
> back into our ballpark. :-) )
> 
> That said, about the general concept of launching an executable on 
> suspend/resume...it seems useful to me, but should such an executable be 
> blocking or non-blocking (i e, resume/suspend continuing in parallel, or 
> waiting for the executable to finish)?
> What do others think?

It should be non-blocking. The original use case doesn't require
blocking behaviour, and non-blocking is a safer default (lesser risk of
causing audio drop-outs on other devices).

-- 
Tanu