/* Restore SIGCHLD in case our parent process ignores it. */
signal (SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
-#ifdef HAVE_SETENV
-# ifndef NDEBUG
+#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
+#endif
+
+#ifdef TOP_BUILDDIR
+ setenv ("VLC_PLUGIN_PATH", TOP_BUILDDIR"/modules", 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)
pthread_sigmask (SIG_SETMASK, &set, NULL);
/* Note that FromLocale() can be used before libvlc is initialized */
- const char *argv[i_argc + 4];
+ const char *argv[i_argc + 3];
int argc = 0;
argv[argc++] = "--no-ignore-config";
argv[argc++] = "--media-library";
-#ifdef TOP_BUILDDIR
- argv[argc++] = FromLocale ("--plugin-path="TOP_BUILDDIR"/modules");
-#endif
#ifdef TOP_SRCDIR
argv[argc++] = FromLocale ("--data-path="TOP_SRCDIR"/share");
#endif
pthread_t self = pthread_self ();
libvlc_set_exit_handler (vlc, vlc_kill, &self);
- if (signal_ignored (SIGHUP)) /* <- needed to handle nohup properly */
+ /* Qt4 insists on catching SIGCHLD via signal handler. To work around that,
+ * unblock it after all our child threads are created. */
+ sigdelset (&set, SIGCHLD);
+ pthread_sigmask (SIG_SETMASK, &set, NULL);
+
+ /* Do not dequeue SIGHUP if it is ignored (nohup) */
+ if (signal_ignored (SIGHUP))
sigdelset (&set, SIGHUP);
+ /* Ignore SIGPIPE */
sigdelset (&set, SIGPIPE);
int signum;
- do
- sigwait (&set, &signum);
- while (signum == SIGCHLD);
+ sigwait (&set, &signum);
/* Restore default signal behaviour after 3 seconds */
sigemptyset (&set);