Hi,
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> Turns out that, when running "ecasound --version" it sometimes does not
> exits properly (it prints on STDOUT and then it stays there).
[...]
> 0x00007f8de15f3be5 in pthread_join () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
ok, this is really interesting. Could you send me the config.h file from a
machine where ecasound hangs here (maybe in a private mail not to spam the
list)?
Also, does sending a SIGHUP to the stuck ecasound process help?
This is essentially a problem with closing down the signal watchdog
thread. To properly handle signals (e.g. terminating processing with
ctrl-c should cleanly close all devices, updated output files headers,
etc), ecasound creates a single thread that is dedicated to handle only
signals. The signals are blocked in all other threads of ecasound (this
solves the ambiguity of which thread gets the signals).
As the last step before exiting, ecasound main thread sends a SIGHUP to
the watchdog, and waits (with pthread_join()) until the watchdog
terminates and then exits the process.
Hmm, I have one idea what could happen (and a fix), but it'll take a few
days before I have time to put together a patch for testing.
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