Apologies if people think i shouldn't have posted this question to slashdot. I did a fair amount of googling to try to figure things out, to no avail. I didn't know whether my sound problems were caused by Debian or PulseAudio, so i figured Slashdot would cover both bases.
Aside from wanting to find a fix for my audio problems, i think the issue of Skype requiring a particular sound library is worthy of discussion on slashdot, as it the general UI issue of whether 'clever' behaviour should be easy to disable.
Oh, and i'm most definitely not a Microsoft troll, e.g. my day job involves working on some fairly hard-core linux debugging software.
You can run a single process backwards and forwards on Linux with UndoDB.
E.g. after a SEGV caused by dereferencing a bad pointer, set a watchpoint on the pointer value and then run backwards to see where the pointer was last modified.
OpenBSD's systrace manpage appears to mention this problem in the BUGS section:
Applications that use clone()-like system calls to share the complete address space between processes may be able to replace system call arguments after they have been evaluated by systrace and escape policy enforcement.
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Ah yes, this fixes things, thanks.
[I'm not sure why the problem started when i installed the new Skype andPulseAudio, but i'm not too concerned about that now.]
Thanks.
Apologies if people think i shouldn't have posted this question to slashdot. I did a fair amount of googling to try to figure things out, to no avail. I didn't know whether my sound problems were caused by Debian or PulseAudio, so i figured Slashdot would cover both bases.
Aside from wanting to find a fix for my audio problems, i think the issue of Skype requiring a particular sound library is worthy of discussion on slashdot, as it the general UI issue of whether 'clever' behaviour should be easy to disable.
Oh, and i'm most definitely not a Microsoft troll, e.g. my day job involves working on some fairly hard-core linux debugging software.
You can run a single process backwards and forwards on Linux with UndoDB.
E.g. after a SEGV caused by dereferencing a bad pointer, set a watchpoint on the pointer value and then run backwards to see where the pointer was last modified.
[Disclaimer: i'm a founder of Undo Software]
OpenBSD's systrace manpage appears to mention this problem in the BUGS section:
Or see http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systr ace&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&ar ch=i386&format=html