pulseaudio --check W: [(null)] caps.c: Normally all extra capabilities would be dropped now, but that's impossible because PulseAudio was built without capabilities support. pulseaudio --log-level=0 --check W: [(null)] caps.c: Normally all extra capabilities would be dropped now, but that's impossible because PulseAudio was built without capabilities support. pulseaudio --log-level=error --check W: [(null)] caps.c: Normally all extra capabilities would be dropped now, but that's impossible because PulseAudio was built without capabilities support. "^W:" suggests the message is a warning. This message should not be displayed if it was checking for the log-level accordingly. This is for pulseaudio-8.0 (as this is what we are at at freebsd ports)
This message happens before we look at configuration etc. to set the log level. FWIW, in recent PA, the message reads: pa_log_warn("FreeBSD cannot drop extra capabilities, implementation needed.");
IMO The content of the message doesn't matter; the fact that it's a pa_log_warn and prints even when log-level says not to print warnings matters. This isn't a PR about missing capabilities support on FreeBSD either. It's solely about printing a message which the user specifically told the program not to print.
guess I'm still sleeping and didn't read the first sentence you wrote, Arun. Can't you look at the configuration earlier, then? I think.. but you do, AFAICT: My code reading had me thinking that daemon/caps.c:pa_drop_caps(), being called by daemon/main.c:change_user(), which itself is called by daemon/main.c:main some 550 lines down the road (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/tree/src/daemon/main.c#n902), i.e., long after the command line options have been inspected (in L544 you're switching over conf->cmd already, so at this point it MUST be set AFAIUI; log level is set 50 lines earlier (L495); config is loaded in L477/480/483 (pa_cmdline_parse in L483)). So I disagree with your assessment: My code reading had me come to the conclusion that, although the command line argument has been read and propagated into the configuration, the message "still" would print.
The call stack you want to look at is: pa_drop_caps() <- pa_drop_root() <- main.c (line 466 in current master)
Oh ok, thanks for the clarification, that one eluded me. So we return to "can't you look at the config earlier?" or make that a #warning instead of pa_log_warn()?
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