Warren hasn't been active in development in a while and probably
doesn't have much time to answer user questions. So point the
mailing contact to the public mailing lists where any developer
can see and answer.
Previously, when select() failed, we assumed that there was an invalid
file descriptor in one of the client structs. Thus we tried select()
one by one. This is bogus, because we should never have invalid file
descriptors. Remove it, and make select() errors fatal.
All of the client's resources are freed in client_close(). It is
enough to set the "expired" flag, no need to duplicate lots of
destruction code again and again.
Due to the large buffers in the client struct, the static client array
eats several megabytes of RAM with a maximum of only 10 clients. Stop
this waste and allocate each client struct from the heap.
Second patch: rename the internal struct name. We will eventually
export this type as an opaque forward-declared struct later, so we
can pass a struct pointer instead of a file descriptor, which would
save us an expensive linear lookup.
I don't believe "interface" is a good name for something like
"connection by a client to MPD", let's call it "client". This is the
first patch in the series which changes the name, beginning with the
file name.
linux/list.h is a nice doubly linked list library - it is lightweight
and powerful at the same time. It will be useful later, when we begin
to allocate client structures dynamically. Import it, and strip out
all the stuff which we are not going to use.
It should be obvious in which thread or context a function is being
executed at runtime. The code which was left in decode.c is for the
decoder thread itself; give the file a better name.
This releases several include file dependencies. As a side effect,
"CHUNK_SIZE" isn't defined by decoder_api.h anymore, so we have to
define it directly in the plugins which need it. It just isn't worth
it to add it to the decoder plugin API.
The decoder plugins need this type, so export it in the public API.
This allows is to remove "decode.h" from "decoder_api.h", uncluttering
the API namespace some more.
Unfortunately, we have to pass the DecoderControl pointer to these
inline functions, because the global variable "dc" may not be
available here. This will be fixed later.
The decoder thread is responsible for resetting dc->command after a
command was executed. As a consequence, we can assume that
dc->command is already NONE after decoder_stop().
There is no unlocked caller of clearPlayerQueue(), and the functions
lockPlaylistInteraction() and unlockPlaylistInteraction() are trivial
- merge them.
Since playerPlay() already calls playerStop(), we can remove its
invocation of playerStop() from playPlaylistOrderNumber().
We can also make playerStop a static function.
All (indirect) callers of queueSong() ensure that the queue state is
BLANK, so there is no need to check it in queueSong() again. As a
side effect, queueSong() cannot fail anymore, and can return void.
Also, playlist_queueError and all its error handling can go away.
