This patch causes snd_pcm_dmix_close() to up a semaphore after downing it if it is unable to discard it. It prevents some deadlock that I am getting when a couple of applications interact and one of them closes the device and later re-opens it.
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--- src/pcm/pcm_dmix.c.orig 2007-10-17 20:19:47.000000000 -0400 +++ src/pcm/pcm_dmix.c 2007-10-17 20:50:46.000000000 -0400 @@ -652,8 +652,11 @@ if (dmix->client) snd_pcm_direct_client_discard(dmix); shm_sum_discard(dmix); - if (snd_pcm_direct_shm_discard(dmix)) - snd_pcm_direct_semaphore_discard(dmix); + if (snd_pcm_direct_shm_discard(dmix)) { + if (snd_pcm_direct_semaphore_discard(dmix)) { + snd_pcm_direct_semaphore_up(dmix, DIRECT_IPC_SEM_CLIENT); + } + } else snd_pcm_direct_semaphore_up(dmix, DIRECT_IPC_SEM_CLIENT); free(dmix->bindings);