[alsa-devel] ALSA calls don't work within Mozilla plug-ins

[Olivier Guillion - Myriad]

Hi,

I'm trying to develop a Mozilla plug-in that display and plays music scores. 
The music rendering module uses ALSA for sound (pcm) output.

It seems that, when called from a Mozilla plug-in, any ALSA function that gets 
a pointer as parameter either crashes or returns wrong values.

I made a very simple test plug-in from the "Basic Plugin" source code provided 
by Mozilla (I can provide the full project if needed). Here is what happens:

- Calling "snd_asoundlib_version" works

- Calling "snd_device_name_hint" crashes

- If the browser runs in super-user mode (sudo firefox), all works fine.

- If I load the plug-in (which is a shared library) from a program of my own 
and call the test function, it works.

Does anyone have any idea about what could cause this issue?
Could it be related to access rights or memory allocation/mapping?

I'm using: 
Ubuntu 11.04
Firefox 6.0
ALSA 1.0.24.1

I'm really stuck here, any advice would be highly appreciated.
Thank you,
Olivier

Olivier Guillion
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