Re: [tuxdroid-user] Daemon updates on svn

[David B. <da...@ja...>]

Thanks, forwarded to remi.

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:51:28 +0200, Philippe Teuwen <ph...@te...>  =

wrote:

>
>> Feel free to commit whatever you think is good on svn.
> ok ;-)
>> Will ask remi to do the same for the tuxttsdaemon.
> Ok but there will be some more changes for tuxttsdaemon.
> If we want to use the same least privileges principle we've to:
> - have sufficient privileges to open the ALSA channel
> - drop the privileges just after opening the channel
>
> But from this little test I can see that tuxttsdaemon
> tries to open the channel only when some text is rendered.
>
> nobody@mercure:/$ tuxttsdaemon
> -----------------------------------
> Tux TTS Daemon V0.2.9
> Acapela group Text to speech system
> Kysoh 2007.
> -----------------------------------
> Voice list:
> [Ryan8k]
> [Bruno8k]
> [Julie8k]
> [Heather8k]
> TCP server : started
> TCP server : client incomming
> ### oops little typo to fix here: *incoming*
>
> ### now from gtdi I try to play sth:
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1357:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
> cannot open audio device hw:2,1 (No such device)
> Erreur de segmentation
> ### Some better error handling than core dump is welcome too ;-)
>
> And if the channel is not maintained opened all the time but
> reopened each time a text is rendered we cannot drop
> the privileges :-(
>
> There is a separate alsa channel only for tts, you could open
> the channel at startup, drop privs and keep it opened.
>
> Phil
>
>
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