[mythtv] strange problem..

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 12:03 am, Isaac Richards wrote:
> So, recorded a show tonight.  Went to play it back, and it crashed the
> player. Investigated, and found out that there were the status messages
> that should've been printed to the console _in_ the file.  Bad data in the
> file = some bad reads = boom, dead player.  I've added more checks to the
> stream parser, so that it seems to fix playing on this file, but the error
> itself is what's weird -- anyone know how the stdout/err could get
> redirected to a file, without me calling dup or dup2?

Ah-ha, figured it out, nevermind =)

I was dumb and missed initializing one of the file descriptor variables in one 
of the constructors to the RingBuffer class.  If it happened to get 
initialized to STDOUT_FILENO, when the RingBuffer was destroyed, it'd close 
stdout.  Next time the RingBuffer was created (say, the next time a program 
was recorded), the output file would get created with the first available 
file descriptor -- STDOUT_FILENO.  So, any cout's or printf's would go to the 
file from then on.

Isaac