Each susbcriber has its own ring buffer already.

I don't quite understand why Qt4 would subscribe to messages all the
time rather than only when the dialog is on.

It should close #2195.

Add schroedinger to Fedora contrib and remove some libraries that are available in the distro itself.

If --syslog is specified on the commandline then vlc loads the logger in file mode first, because --file-logging is the default. This is counter intuitive for users, they expect *only* syslog mode to be active. Note that the logger module can only have one mode active at the sametime, either html, text or syslog.

win32 has a fcntl header but no fcntl function