Fedora sound nightmare (Pulseaudio)

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 26.03.08 12:04, Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at samba.org) wrote:

> > > The best thing to do is to use the DBus session bus.  Have pulseaudio
> > > grab a bus name such as org.pulseaudio.SessionDaemon.
> > 
> > Uh? Grab a name for nothing? Also, this would prohibit multiple
> > instances of PA for different users.
> 
> Another very useful way to deal with this situation (which is what Samba
> does) is to take an fcntl lock on the PID file.  This will nicely go
> away with the process, and clearly no other process will grab a lock on
> a pulse-audio.pid file.

We already use POSIX locking for making sure that access to the PID
file is properly serialized.

Lennart

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