Bug#796608: espeakup: diff for NMU version 1:0.71-27.1
Felipe Sateler, on Sun 03 Jul 2016 17:38:58 -0300, wrote:
> On 3 July 2016 at 16:33, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> > Felipe Sateler, on Sun 03 Jul 2016 17:31:14 -0300, wrote:
> >> I think the daemonization needs to move later as well:
> >
> > Why?
>
> Because the usual protocol is "fork when ready".
? I would rather expect it to be "parent exits when ready".
> > Opening the sound card before forking doesn't look like a good idea to
> > me.
>
> Why would it be bad?
Because then you have two processes which hold a file descriptor on the
sound card, one will close it, and you never know what the driver would
be doing.
> Eg, pulseaudio opens the sound card before forking as well.
Is it really? That doesn't sound really safe to me.
Samuel
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