[pulseaudio-discuss] Prevent sound being lost on all applications after a pulseaudio restart?

[Ahmed S. Darwish]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:11:27AM +0300, Laszlo KERTESZ wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is this possible to somehow configure pulseaudio in such a way that a
> restart of the daemon will not prevent already running applications from
> using sound?
>

Maybe the right question is, why are you restarting the PA daemon?

Restarts should only be done on extreme daemon misbehavior, which
is a bug that should be fixed, or by the real-time threads
over-using their allocated budget and thus killed by rtkit to
maintain overall system usability.

Please explain your use case more thoroughly ..

Morover, the PulseAudio communication protocol, mostly over the
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse/native unix socket, requires several
handshake commands before sending audio packets from client to
the server or vice versa. AFAIK there is no state persisting
across daemon reboots.

Regards,

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