[MPlayer-dev-eng] using strace -p on running mplayer (streamdump) kills mplayer

Oliver oliver at first.in-berlin.de
Fri Feb 24 03:07:28 CET 2012


Hello,

when using mplayer to streamdump, then attaching
strace -p to it, the mplayer dies.

I found out, that this is coming from an interrupted system call
(recv()) in  stream/networking.c

I filed a bugreport and submitted a small patch, which
solved that problem.

http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=2044

In general it would be better to use sigaction()-semantics for signalling
instead of signal(), so that signalling will become reliable.

Maybe this could be something worth working on later.
At the moment I just wanted to fix this issue.

I hope that helps

Ciao,
   Oliver



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