Description From Michael Stone 2008-09-25 19:27:29 (-) [reply]
To determine whether a pid is occupied with the kill(pid, 0) idiom, you have to
test
#include <signal.h>
#include <errno.h>
kill(pid, 0) < 0 && errno == ESRCH
not just
#include <signal.h>
kill(pid, 0) < 0
otherwise you get incorrect results when pid is running as a different user
(causing kill(pid, 0) to return -1 + EPERM).
src/audio/alsa/SDL_alsa_audio.c is certainly affected by this bug in both
1.2.13 and 1.3-trunk. It probably occurs in other places as well.
#ifndef SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER_X11_DYNAMIC_XSS
#define SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER_X11_DYNAMIC_XSS NULL
#endif
so that the X code would compile. It looked like it was needed
Instead of the GNOME screensaver respecting the MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension
and registering for the screensaver idle event, it uses a completely different
control mechanism. Our alternatives are to use dbus (very complicated) or
this really painful hack.
- use SDL_getenv, not getenv ...
- no more support for 0.9.25 - not even mentioned any longer on directfb.org
- fix fullscreen issues
- add a simple window manager unless the directfb team comes up with a working wm.
The driver has support for a very, very basic window manager you may
want to use when runnning with "wm=default". Use
export SDL_DIRECTFB_WM=1
to enable basic window borders including icon support. In order to have the window title rendered,
you need to have the following font installed:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf
* Some math functions become intrinsic in release mode, so we need to
convert all the math functions into SDL math functions, like we did
with the stdlib functions.
* Constant initializers of 8-bit values become calls to memset() in
release mode, but memset() itself is an intrinsic when explicitly
called. So we'll just explicitly call memset() in those cases.
From: Couriersud
Subject: SDL1.3 DirectFB patches
The attached contains the following directfb changes:
- Dynamic loading of libdirectfb.so. This may to turned off as well in configure
- Use linux-input by default. May be switched off by environment variable.
- Added some code which will use directfb's x11 backend when DISPLAY is set.
