/*** This file is part of PulseAudio. Copyright 2009 Lennart Poettering PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. ***/ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include #endif #include #include #include #include "fork-detect.h" int pa_detect_fork(void) { static pa_atomic_t pid = PA_ATOMIC_INIT((int) -1); /* Some really stupid applications (Hey, vim, that means you!) * love to fork after initializing * gtk/libcanberra/pulseaudio. This is really bad style. We * however have to deal with this cleanly, so we try to detect the * forks making sure all our calls fail cleanly after the fork. */ pa_assert_cc(sizeof(pa_atomic_t) >= sizeof(pid_t)); for (;;) { pid_t stored_pid = (pid_t) pa_atomic_load(&pid); /* First let's check whether the current pid matches the stored one */ if (stored_pid == getpid()) return false; /* Does it contain a different PID than ours? Then the process got forked. */ if ((int) stored_pid != (int) -1) return true; /* Ok, it still contains no PID, then store it */ if (pa_atomic_cmpxchg(&pid, (int) -1, (int) getpid())) return false; } }