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author | Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se> | 2012-01-13 20:22:22 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se> | 2012-01-13 20:22:22 +0100 |
commit | e962add26e6f4352b75dd8a07667403aa619f1e0 (patch) | |
tree | 9f899212f36c2436e5e47627e40d156ac673f2bc /README | |
parent | 54c4f5bc93ab62c7ee2028b07026e2dda993b192 (diff) | |
download | libmtp-e962add26e6f4352b75dd8a07667403aa619f1e0.tar.gz |
Document the misbehaviour more
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se>
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@@ -158,6 +158,10 @@ cannot test your solution. to/from the device and will never close the session, thus Windows simply does not close sessions at all. + For example this means that a device may work the first time + you run some command-line example like "mtp-detect" while + subsequent runs fail. + Typical sign of this illness: broken pipes on closing sessions, on the main transfer pipes(s) or the interrupt pipe: @@ -175,10 +179,19 @@ cannot test your solution. properly tested, and "it works with Windows" is sort of the testing criteria at some companies. - You can get Windows-like behaviour on Linux by running a HAL-aware + You can get Windows-like behaviour on Linux by running a udev-aware libmtp GUI client like Rhythmbox or Gnomad2, which will "hook" the device when you plug it in, and "release" it if you unplug - it. + it, and you start/end you transfer sessions by plugging/unplugging + the USB cable. + + The "Unix way" of running small programs that open the device, + do something, then close the device, isn't really working with + such devices and you cannot expect to have command line tools + like the mtp examples work with them. You could implement new + example programs that just call to a mediating daemon like the + Windows MTP stack does. (And change all programs using libmtp + directly today.) If this bug in your device annoys you, contact your device manufacturer and ask them to test their product with some libmtp |