#include <vlc/vlc.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
#include <locale.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <time.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <dlfcn.h>
+
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+#include <string.h>
+#endif
/* 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>
+#ifdef HAVE_MAEMO
+static void dummy_handler (int signum)
+{
+ (void) signum;
+}
+#endif
+
+static bool signal_ignored (int signum)
+{
+ struct sigaction sa;
+
+ if (sigaction (signum, NULL, &sa))
+ return false;
+ return ((sa.sa_flags & SA_SIGINFO)
+ ? (void *)sa.sa_sigaction : (void *)sa.sa_handler) == SIG_IGN;
+}
+
+static void vlc_kill (void *data)
+{
+ pthread_t *ps = data;
+
+ pthread_kill (*ps, SIGTERM);
+}
+
+static void exit_timeout (int signum)
+{
+ (void) signum;
+ signal (SIGINT, SIG_DFL);
+}
/*****************************************************************************
* main: parse command line, start interface and spawn threads.
*****************************************************************************/
int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
{
- int i_ret;
+ /* 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);
+ /* Restore default for SIGCHLD in case parent ignores it. */
+ signal (SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
+
+#ifdef HAVE_SETENV
+# ifndef NDEBUG
+ /* Activate malloc checking routines to detect heap corruptions. */
+ setenv ("MALLOC_CHECK_", "2", 1);
+
+ /* Disable the ugly Gnome crash dialog so that we properly segfault */
+ setenv ("GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG", "1", 1);
+# endif
+
+ /* 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
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
-# ifndef NDEBUG
- /* Activate malloc checking routines to detect heap corruptions. */
- putenv( (char*)"MALLOC_CHECK_=2" );
-# ifdef __APPLE__
- putenv( (char*)"MallocErrorAbort=crash_my_baby_crash" );
-# endif
-
- /* Disable the ugly Gnome crash dialog so that we properly segfault */
- putenv( (char *)"GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG=1" );
-# endif
-#endif
+ sigset_t set;
+ sigemptyset (&set);
/* Synchronously intercepted POSIX signals.
*
* In a threaded program such as VLC, the only sane way to handle signals
- * is to block them in all thread but one - this is the only way to
+ * is to block them in all threads but one - this is the only way to
* predict which thread will receive them. If any piece of code depends
* on delivery of one of this signal it is intrinsically not thread-safe
* and MUST NOT be used in VLC, whether we like it or not.
*
* Signal that request a clean shutdown, and force an unclean shutdown
* if they are triggered again 2+ seconds later.
- * We have to handle SIGTERM cleanly because of daemon mode.
- * Note that we set the signals after the vlc_create call. */
- static const int sigs[] = {
- SIGINT, SIGHUP, SIGQUIT, SIGTERM,
+ * We have to handle SIGTERM cleanly because of daemon mode. */
+ sigaddset (&set, SIGINT);
+ sigaddset (&set, SIGHUP);
+ sigaddset (&set, SIGQUIT);
+ sigaddset (&set, SIGTERM);
+
/* Signals that cause a no-op:
* - SIGPIPE might happen with sockets and would crash VLC. It MUST be
* blocked by any LibVLC-dependent application, not just VLC.
* - SIGCHLD comes after exec*() (such as httpd CGI support) and must
* be dequeued to cleanup zombie processes.
*/
- SIGPIPE, SIGCHLD
- };
-
- sigset_t set;
- sigemptyset (&set);
- for (unsigned i = 0; i < sizeof (sigs) / sizeof (sigs[0]); i++)
- sigaddset (&set, sigs[i]);
+ sigaddset (&set, SIGPIPE);
+ sigaddset (&set, SIGCHLD);
+#ifdef HAVE_MAEMO
+ sigaddset (&set, SIGRTMIN);
+ {
+ struct sigaction act = { .sa_handler = dummy_handler, };
+ sigaction (SIGRTMIN, &act, NULL);
+ }
+#endif
/* Block all these signals */
pthread_sigmask (SIG_BLOCK, &set, NULL);
- sigdelset (&set, SIGPIPE);
- sigdelset (&set, SIGCHLD);
/* Note that FromLocale() can be used before libvlc is initialized */
const char *argv[i_argc + 3];
int argc = 0;
+ argv[argc++] = "--no-ignore-config";
#ifdef TOP_BUILDDIR
argv[argc++] = FromLocale ("--plugin-path="TOP_BUILDDIR"/modules");
#endif
#ifdef TOP_SRCDIR
-# ifdef ENABLE_HTTPD
- argv[argc++] = FromLocale ("--http-src="TOP_SRCDIR"/share/http");
-# endif
+ argv[argc++] = FromLocale ("--data-path="TOP_SRCDIR"/share");
#endif
- for (int i = 1; i < i_argc; i++)
+ int i = 1;
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+ /* When VLC.app is run by double clicking in Mac OS X, the 2nd arg
+ * is the PSN - process serial number (a unique PID-ish thingie)
+ * still ok for real Darwin & when run from command line
+ * for example -psn_0_9306113 */
+ if(i_argc >= 2 && !strncmp( ppsz_argv[1] , "-psn" , 4 ))
+ i = 2;
+#endif
+ for (; i < i_argc; i++)
if ((argv[argc++] = FromLocale (ppsz_argv[i])) == NULL)
return 1; // BOOM!
+ argv[argc] = NULL;
- libvlc_exception_t ex, dummy;
- libvlc_exception_init (&ex);
- libvlc_exception_init (&dummy);
+ vlc_enable_override ();
/* Initialize libvlc */
- libvlc_instance_t *vlc = libvlc_new (argc, argv, &ex);
+ libvlc_instance_t *vlc = libvlc_new (argc, argv);
+ if (vlc == NULL)
+ goto out;
- if (vlc != NULL)
- {
- libvlc_add_intf (vlc, "signals", &ex);
- if (libvlc_exception_raised (&ex))
- {
- libvlc_exception_clear (&ex);
- pthread_sigmask (SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL);
- }
- libvlc_add_intf (vlc, "globalhotkeys,none", &ex);
- libvlc_add_intf (vlc, NULL, &ex);
- libvlc_playlist_play (vlc, -1, 0, NULL, &dummy);
- libvlc_wait (vlc);
- libvlc_release (vlc);
- }
- i_ret = libvlc_exception_raised (&ex);
- if( i_ret )
- fprintf( stderr, "%s\n", libvlc_exception_get_message( &ex));
+ libvlc_set_user_agent (vlc, "VLC media player", NULL);
+
+#if !defined (HAVE_MAEMO) && !defined __APPLE__
+ libvlc_add_intf (vlc, "globalhotkeys,none");
+#endif
+ if (libvlc_add_intf (vlc, NULL))
+ goto out;
+
+ libvlc_playlist_play (vlc, -1, 0, NULL);
+
+ /* Wait for a termination signal */
+ pthread_t self = pthread_self ();
+ libvlc_set_exit_handler (vlc, vlc_kill, &self);
+
+ if (signal_ignored (SIGHUP)) /* <- needed to handle nohup properly */
+ sigdelset (&set, SIGHUP);
+ sigdelset (&set, SIGPIPE);
+
+ int signum;
+ do
+ sigwait (&set, &signum);
+ while (signum == SIGCHLD);
- libvlc_exception_clear (&ex);
- libvlc_exception_clear (&dummy);
+ /* Restore default signal behaviour after 3 seconds */
+ sigemptyset (&set);
+ sigaddset (&set, SIGINT);
+ sigaddset (&set, SIGALRM);
+ signal (SIGINT, SIG_IGN);
+ signal (SIGALRM, exit_timeout);
+ pthread_sigmask (SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL);
+ alarm (3);
- for (int i = 0; i < argc; i++)
+ /* Cleanup */
+out:
+ if (vlc != NULL)
+ libvlc_release (vlc);
+ for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++)
LocaleFree (argv[i]);
- return i_ret;
+#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 ("libkio.so.5", RTLD_LAZY|RTLD_LOCAL|RTLD_NOLOAD) != NULL)
+ {
+ fprintf (stderr, "KIO present. Unclean shutdown!\n"
+ " (see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234484 for details)\n");
+ _exit (0);
+ }
+#endif
+ return 0;
}