[Live-devel] Using event triggers

[Felix Radensky]

Hi Ross,

On 02/14/2011 03:11 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> I don't have any file descriptors added to live555 event loop. This
>> causes code is  BasicTaskScheduler::SingleStep() to produce the
>> following error:
>>
>> BasicTaskScheduler::SingleStep(): select() fails: Bad file descriptor
>
> This shows that your code - perhaps indirectly - has called 
> "TaskScheduler:: turnOnBackgroundReadHandling()" with an invalid 
> socket number (perhaps, a socket number that has already been 
> closed?).  Note that the error can also refer to network sockets; 
> not just sockets from open files.  (In Unix, these are one and the 
> same.)
>
> Does your code contain any calls to "turnOnBackgroundReadHandler()"? 
> Or to "ByteStreamFileSource::createNew()"?  Or to 
> "BasicUDPSource::createNew()"?
>
> Or perhaps you're closing some open files (or "Groupsock" or 
> "RTPSource" or "RTCPInstance" objects) when you shouldn't be?

Thanks for a prompt reply. I was using live555 from 2 different 
threads, which is not supported.
Moving everything into a single thread fixed my problem.

Thanks for a great software !

Felix.