#include <time.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <unistd.h>
+#include <dlfcn.h>
/*****************************************************************************
* main: parse command line, start interface and spawn threads.
*****************************************************************************/
int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
{
-#ifdef __APPLE__
- /* The so-called POSIX-compliant MacOS X is not.
- * SIGPIPE fires even when it is blocked in all threads! */
+ /* The so-called POSIX-compliant MacOS X reportedly processes SIGPIPE even
+ * if it is blocked in all thread. Also some libraries want SIGPIPE blocked
+ * as they have no clue about signal masks.
+ * Note: this is NOT an excuse for not protecting against SIGPIPE. If
+ * LibVLC runs outside of VLC, we cannot rely on this code snippet. */
signal (SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
-#endif
#ifndef ALLOW_RUN_AS_ROOT
if (geteuid () == 0)
#ifndef __APPLE__
/* This clutters OSX GUI error logs */
- fprintf( stderr, "VLC media player %s\n", libvlc_get_version() );
+ fprintf( stderr, "VLC media player %s (revision %s)\n",
+ libvlc_get_version(), libvlc_get_changeset() );
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_PUTENV
# endif
#endif
+ /* Make Xlib hide visuals with an alphachannel. Ensure that Qt4 will not
+ * use the alpha channel for the embedded video window. */
+ putenv( (char *)"XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1" );
+
/* Synchronously intercepted POSIX signals.
*
* In a threaded program such as VLC, the only sane way to handle signals
for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++)
LocaleFree (argv[i]);
+#ifdef RTLD_NOLOAD
+ /* Avoid crash in KIO scheduler cleanup. */
+ /* This is ugly, but we get way too many crash reports due to this. */
+ if (dlopen ("libkfilemodule.so", RTLD_LAZY|RTLD_LOCAL|RTLD_NOLOAD) != NULL)
+ {
+ fprintf (stderr, "KFile plugin present. Unclean shutdown!\n");
+ _exit (0);
+ }
+#endif
return 0;
}