Bug 213783

Summary: alsa's arecord stops recording after 3hrs 23min.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht>
Component: alsa-utilsAssignee: Martin Stransky <stransky>
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Description Wolfgang Rupprecht 2006-11-02 23:12:39 UTC
Description of problem:

alsa's arecord stops recording after 3hrs 23min when recording in CD
format.  (44100 samples/sec, 2 channel, 16bits / sample)

Most notable this is approximately the time required to reach 2^31
bytes.  I suspect some variable that should have been a ssize_t is
erroniously an int and it is rolling over.

The exact roll-over for cd-audio would be at 3 hrs 22 min 53.94 sec,
which is pretty close to my observed blow-up.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

alsa-utils-1.0.12-3.fc6

How reproducible:

unknown

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add a shell script called pcmaudiod to xinetd's tcp daemon's
2. put this one line in the shell script: arecord -q -f cd - 
3. connect up a tcp listener and wait 3 hrs 23 min.
  
Actual results:
recording stops while listener was expecting it to continue.

Expected results:
recording should continue till listener closes his end of the tcp connection.

Additional info:
I'll try to reproduce.  Given how long this takes, it is going to be fun.

I don't know if this happens on a local file copy or if it is a result
of something in the tcp stream.

Comment 1 Wolfgang Rupprecht 2006-11-03 15:33:40 UTC
I ran an extended test with arecord's output going to a local file.  At roughly 
the same point in time arecord closed the output file, renmaed it
filename-01.wav and opened a second file filename-02.wav.  The byte-count for
this transition to a second file was 2147483692 bytes (very roughly 2^31 bytes
minus a bit of padding).

-rw-r--r-- 1 root     wsrcc 2147483692 Nov  2 18:46 arecord-01.wav
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     wsrcc 2147483692 Nov  2 22:11 arecord-02.wav
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     wsrcc  278592044 Nov  2 22:38 arecord-03.wav

It now appears that the closing of the tcp stream is a botch caused 
by the program attempting to roll files in order to keep them under 2^31 bytes.

Personally, the mandatory rolling of the files already strikes me as a
misfeature.  If I wanted a contigious 4 gig file the program should let me have
it.  Closing a stdout stream after 2^31 bytes is just a bug on top of things.

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2007-04-10 10:27:58 UTC
Could you please test this package? It contains a large file support. (rebuild
it as root with "rpmbuild --rebuild package.rpm" and install from
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS)

http://people.redhat.com/stransky/alsa/test/alsa-utils-1.0.14-0.3.rc2.fc7.src.rpm

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 04:22:54 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 16:40:56 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.