[LAU] killling zombie jack

[Neil C Smith]

On 23 October 2015 at 10:49, Neil C Smith <neilcsmith.net at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 23 October 2015 at 10:26, Kaza Kore <dj_kaza at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> And that doesn't seem right! I start any other Jack application I have
>> without the Jack server running and I just get no playback! Jack in no way
>> ever starts itself in my experience. (Mind I haven't played with Renoise
>> since 2.x) but it definitely seems Renoise must be asking it to start, which
>> sounds possibly like part of the dbus protocol but I'm in no way sure
>
> There's a flag in the Jack API that an application can pass to control
> automatic starting of the server if it isn't running.  It's not
> related to dbus at all.

To clarify that, I mean that it's highly unlikely that Renoise is
using dbus directly - code here would suggest why jackdbus is used
when the auto launch behaviour is used.

https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2/blob/master/posix/JackPosixServerLaunch.cpp

Best wishes,

Neil

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