2009/1/10 Chris Cannam <[email protected]>:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Emanuel Rumpf <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What means:
>>
>> [seqman]  MmappedControlBlock : Couldn't open  
>> "/tmp/rosegarden_control_block"
>> WARNING: Rosegarden::Exception: "Couldn't open /tmp/rosegarden_control_block"
>>
>> (Or why isn't it being created?)
>
> I can't tell you off the top of my head why it's not being created
> when it's expected, but I can tell you what it is.  This file is one
> of the memory-mapped files used for communication between sequencer
> and GUI process.  This particular one is created by the GUI and used
> subsequently by both sequencer and GUI, and the message you see comes
> from the sequencer when it finds that the file has not (yet) been
> created.
>
> This message quite often appears on startup from 1.6/1.7 versions, if
> the sequencer gets to the point of looking for the file before the GUI
> has created it -- the sequencer then pauses and looks again until the
> file eventually turns up.
>
> If it's coming from the qt4 port, I have no ready explanation --
> perhaps the code is not happening in the right order -- but it's
> something I suggest not worrying about yet.  Ultimately none of these
> files should be necessary in the qt4 version as we don't need explicit
> memory mapping to communicate between sequencer and GUI, since they're
> both in the same process now.  However, that change is another one
> that I don't want to make without being able to test the results.
>
> Note that the names of the mmapped files are the same currently in qt4
> as they are in trunk, which means that if you run qt4 and trunk builds
> at once, they will trample over one another's files.  Again, this will
> change (in fact it should be possible to run the qt4 build as many
> times at once as you wish, which was not possible in trunk for this
> among other reasons).
>
>


Thank you for the explanation.
I assume it's ok to ignore it then, in the qt4 build.

-
Emanuel

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