/* Explicit HACK */
extern void LocaleFree (const char *);
extern char *FromLocale (const char *);
+extern void vlc_enable_override (void);
#include <signal.h>
#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);
+
+#ifdef HAVE_PUTENV
+# ifndef NDEBUG
+ /* Activate malloc checking routines to detect heap corruptions. */
+ putenv( (char*)"MALLOC_CHECK_=2" );
+
+ /* Disable the ugly Gnome crash dialog so that we properly segfault */
+ putenv( (char *)"GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG=1" );
+# endif
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_SETENV
+ /* Clear the X.Org startup notification ID. Otherwise the UI might try to
+ * change the environment while the process is multi-threaded. That could
+ * crash. Screw you X.Org. Next time write a thread-safe specification. */
+ unsetenv ("DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID");
#endif
#ifndef ALLOW_RUN_AS_ROOT
libvlc_get_version(), libvlc_get_changeset() );
#endif
-#ifdef HAVE_PUTENV
-# ifndef NDEBUG
- /* Activate malloc checking routines to detect heap corruptions. */
- putenv( (char*)"MALLOC_CHECK_=2" );
-
- /* Disable the ugly Gnome crash dialog so that we properly segfault */
- putenv( (char *)"GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG=1" );
-# endif
-#endif
-
/* Synchronously intercepted POSIX signals.
*
* In a threaded program such as VLC, the only sane way to handle signals
return 1; // BOOM!
argv[argc] = NULL;
+ vlc_enable_override ();
+
/* Initialize libvlc */
libvlc_instance_t *vlc = libvlc_new (argc, argv);
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;
}