[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-server] gstreamer: Check if ORC library can work

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:23:40PM +0100, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> ORC lirabry is used internally by GStreamer to generate code
> dynamically.
> If ORC cannot allocate executable memory the failure cause
> an abort(3) to be called.
> This happens on some SELinux configuration that disable executable
> memory allocation (execmem boolean).
> Check that ORC could work before attempting to use GStreamer to
> avoid crashes. The log will report an error.

Is that following some recommendations from orc/gstreamer maintainers?
Or would they be open to removing that abort(), which would allow us to
detect the error?

Christophe
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