From 47bd1b0545d7f2c7693a39b1c131e19caa146148 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Walthinsen <omega@temple-baptist.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 09:32:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a check to see if the plugin actually exists before
 even bothering to try to load it.  Saves a fair amount of d...

Original commit message from CVS:
Added a check to see if the plugin actually exists before even bothering
to try to load it.  Saves a fair amount of debugging spew with
_gst_plugin_spew enabled.
---
 gst/gstplugin.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gst/gstplugin.c b/gst/gstplugin.c
index 406a9fb58d..4206a9b78d 100644
--- a/gst/gstplugin.c
+++ b/gst/gstplugin.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 #include "config.h"
 
-#undef PLUGINS_USE_SRCDIR
+//#undef PLUGINS_USE_SRCDIR
 
 /* list of loaded modules and its sequence number */
 GList *_gst_modules;
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ gboolean gst_plugin_load_absolute(gchar *name) {
   GstPluginInitFunc initfunc;
   GstPlugin *plugin;
   GList *plugins;
-
+  struct stat file_status;
 
   if (g_module_supported() == FALSE) {
     g_print("gstplugin: wow, you built this on a platform without dynamic loading???\n");
@@ -230,6 +230,11 @@ gboolean gst_plugin_load_absolute(gchar *name) {
   }
   //g_print("trying to absolute load '%s\n",name);
 
+  if (stat(name,&file_status)) {
+//    g_print("problem opening file %s\n",name);
+    return FALSE;
+  }
+
   module = g_module_open(name,G_MODULE_BIND_LAZY);
   if (module != NULL) {
     if (g_module_symbol(module,"plugin_init",(gpointer *)&initfunc)) {