1 /*****************************************************************************
2 * vlc.c: the VLC player
3 *****************************************************************************
4 * Copyright (C) 1998-2008 the VideoLAN team
7 * Authors: Vincent Seguin <seguin@via.ecp.fr>
8 * Samuel Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>
9 * Gildas Bazin <gbazin@videolan.org>
10 * Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman at videolan dot org>
11 * Lots of other people, see the libvlc AUTHORS file
13 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
14 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
15 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
16 * (at your option) any later version.
18 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
21 * GNU General Public License for more details.
23 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
24 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
25 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA.
26 *****************************************************************************/
47 extern void LocaleFree (const char *);
48 extern char *FromLocale (const char *);
49 extern void vlc_enable_override (void);
52 static void dummy_handler (int signum
)
58 static bool signal_ignored (int signum
)
62 if (sigaction (signum
, NULL
, &sa
))
64 return ((sa
.sa_flags
& SA_SIGINFO
)
65 ? (void *)sa
.sa_sigaction
: (void *)sa
.sa_handler
) == SIG_IGN
;
68 static void vlc_kill (void *data
)
73 pthread_kill (*ps
, SIGTERM
);
75 // send a signal to the main thread
76 kill (getpid(), SIGTERM
);
80 static void exit_timeout (int signum
)
83 signal (SIGINT
, SIG_DFL
);
86 /*****************************************************************************
87 * main: parse command line, start interface and spawn threads.
88 *****************************************************************************/
89 int main( int i_argc
, const char *ppsz_argv
[] )
91 /* The so-called POSIX-compliant MacOS X reportedly processes SIGPIPE even
92 * if it is blocked in all thread.
93 * Note: this is NOT an excuse for not protecting against SIGPIPE. If
94 * LibVLC runs outside of VLC, we cannot rely on this code snippet. */
95 signal (SIGPIPE
, SIG_IGN
);
96 /* Restore SIGCHLD in case our parent process ignores it. */
97 signal (SIGCHLD
, SIG_DFL
);
100 /* Activate malloc checking routines to detect heap corruptions. */
101 setenv ("MALLOC_CHECK_", "2", 1);
103 /* Disable the ugly Gnome crash dialog so that we properly segfault */
104 setenv ("GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG", "1", 1);
108 setenv ("VLC_PLUGIN_PATH", TOP_BUILDDIR
"/modules", 1);
111 /* Clear the X.Org startup notification ID. Otherwise the UI might try to
112 * change the environment while the process is multi-threaded. That could
113 * crash. Screw you X.Org. Next time write a thread-safe specification. */
114 unsetenv ("DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID");
116 #ifndef ALLOW_RUN_AS_ROOT
119 fprintf (stderr
, "VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.\n"
120 "If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports\n"
121 "you can use %s-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and\n"
122 "cannot be run by non-trusted users first).\n", ppsz_argv
[0]);
127 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
129 if (isatty (STDERR_FILENO
))
130 /* This message clutters error logs. It is print it only on a TTY.
131 * Forunately, LibVLC prints version infos with -vv anyhow. */
132 fprintf (stderr
, "VLC media player %s (revision %s)\n",
133 libvlc_get_version(), libvlc_get_changeset());
138 /* VLC uses sigwait() to dequeue interesting signals.
139 * For this to work, those signals must be blocked in all threads,
140 * including the thread calling sigwait() (see the man page for details).
142 * There are two advantages to sigwait() over traditional signal handlers:
143 * - delivery is synchronous: no need to worry about async-safety,
144 * - EINTR is not generated: other threads need not handle that error.
145 * That being said, some LibVLC programs do not use sigwait(). Therefore
146 * EINTR must still be handled cleanly, notably from poll() calls.
148 * Signals that request a clean shutdown, and force an unclean shutdown
149 * if they are triggered again 2+ seconds later.
150 * We have to handle SIGTERM cleanly because of daemon mode. */
151 sigaddset (&set
, SIGINT
);
152 sigaddset (&set
, SIGHUP
);
153 sigaddset (&set
, SIGQUIT
);
154 sigaddset (&set
, SIGTERM
);
156 /* SIGPIPE can happen and would crash the process. On modern systems,
157 * the MSG_NOSIGNAL flag protects socket write operations against SIGPIPE.
158 * But we still need to block SIGPIPE when:
159 * - writing to pipes,
160 * - using write() instead of send() for code not specific to sockets.
161 * LibVLC code assumes that SIGPIPE is blocked. Other LibVLC applications
162 * shall block it (or handle it somehow) too.
164 sigaddset (&set
, SIGPIPE
);
166 /* SIGCHLD must be dequeued to clean up zombie child processes.
167 * Furthermore the handler must not be set to SIG_IGN (see above).
168 * We cannot pragmatically handle EINTR, short reads and short writes
169 * in every code paths (including underlying libraries). So we just
170 * block SIGCHLD in all threads, and dequeue it below. */
171 sigaddset (&set
, SIGCHLD
);
174 sigaddset (&set
, SIGRTMIN
);
176 struct sigaction act
= { .sa_handler
= dummy_handler
, };
177 sigaction (SIGRTMIN
, &act
, NULL
);
180 /* Block all these signals */
181 pthread_sigmask (SIG_SETMASK
, &set
, NULL
);
183 /* Note that FromLocale() can be used before libvlc is initialized */
184 const char *argv
[i_argc
+ 3];
187 argv
[argc
++] = "--no-ignore-config";
188 argv
[argc
++] = "--media-library";
190 argv
[argc
++] = FromLocale ("--data-path="TOP_SRCDIR
"/share");
195 /* When VLC.app is run by double clicking in Mac OS X, the 2nd arg
196 * is the PSN - process serial number (a unique PID-ish thingie)
197 * still ok for real Darwin & when run from command line
198 * for example -psn_0_9306113 */
199 if(i_argc
>= 2 && !strncmp( ppsz_argv
[1] , "-psn" , 4 ))
202 for (; i
< i_argc
; i
++)
203 if ((argv
[argc
++] = FromLocale (ppsz_argv
[i
])) == NULL
)
207 vlc_enable_override ();
209 /* Initialize libvlc */
210 libvlc_instance_t
*vlc
= libvlc_new (argc
, argv
);
214 libvlc_set_user_agent (vlc
, "VLC media player", "VLC/"PACKAGE_VERSION
);
216 #if !defined (HAVE_MAEMO) && !defined __APPLE__ && !defined (__OS2__)
217 libvlc_add_intf (vlc
, "globalhotkeys,none");
219 if (libvlc_add_intf (vlc
, NULL
))
222 libvlc_playlist_play (vlc
, -1, 0, NULL
);
224 /* Wait for a termination signal */
225 pthread_t self
= pthread_self ();
226 libvlc_set_exit_handler (vlc
, vlc_kill
, &self
);
228 /* Qt4 insists on catching SIGCHLD via signal handler. To work around that,
229 * unblock it after all our child threads are created. */
230 sigdelset (&set
, SIGCHLD
);
231 pthread_sigmask (SIG_SETMASK
, &set
, NULL
);
233 /* Do not dequeue SIGHUP if it is ignored (nohup) */
234 if (signal_ignored (SIGHUP
))
235 sigdelset (&set
, SIGHUP
);
237 sigdelset (&set
, SIGPIPE
);
240 sigwait (&set
, &signum
);
242 /* Restore default signal behaviour after 3 seconds */
244 sigaddset (&set
, SIGINT
);
245 sigaddset (&set
, SIGALRM
);
246 signal (SIGINT
, SIG_IGN
);
247 signal (SIGALRM
, exit_timeout
);
248 pthread_sigmask (SIG_UNBLOCK
, &set
, NULL
);
254 libvlc_release (vlc
);
255 for (int i
= 2; i
< argc
; i
++)
256 LocaleFree (argv
[i
]);