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authorwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2014-10-08 12:49:04 +0200
committerwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2014-10-08 12:49:04 +0200
commit046ad8c5aef8e0b72b823bb4ac5f875db33dd1dd (patch)
tree5501e134ddb8ed59f2812e7a4e8f54ce873fe8b0
parent014547bdc2c148713e335b6468c5029bb88555b0 (diff)
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msg: set an explicit overflow message
So client API users don't have to worry about this specifically. Also document the overflow case. (Not sure if we really need to do this; maybe it'd be better not to, since this just adds more noise to the docs.)
-rw-r--r--common/msg.c2
-rw-r--r--libmpv/client.h5
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/common/msg.c b/common/msg.c
index 866cae5c9d..21fae360be 100644
--- a/common/msg.c
+++ b/common/msg.c
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static void write_msg_to_buffers(struct mp_log *log, int lev, char *text)
*entry = (struct mp_log_buffer_entry) {
.prefix = "overflow",
.level = MSGL_FATAL,
- .text = "",
+ .text = "log message buffer overflow\n",
};
}
mp_ring_write(buffer->ring, (unsigned char *)&entry, sizeof(entry));
diff --git a/libmpv/client.h b/libmpv/client.h
index fe7efa66f8..c4df6a3fbf 100644
--- a/libmpv/client.h
+++ b/libmpv/client.h
@@ -1032,7 +1032,10 @@ typedef struct mpv_event_property {
typedef struct mpv_event_log_message {
/**
- * The module prefix, identifies the sender of the message.
+ * The module prefix, identifies the sender of the message. As a special
+ * case, if the message buffer overflows, this will be set to the string
+ * "overflow" (which doesn't appear as prefix otherwise), and the text
+ * field will contain an informative message.
*/
const char *prefix;
/**