Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 00:32:26 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > This has led to the current mess with your choice of ESD, OSS, and > > ALSALIB as the sound API. If applications had used the theoretical > > libsound.so from the start, there wouldn't be this problem. > > I'm not advocating a kernel-based gpm, but it seems to me that the > problem you mention with sound is due to the device semantics. The > kernel doesn't impose single-open rules. That's a fault of the driver.
Its nothing to do with open rules (and they do impose single open btw). The point is that using a library means you can rip up the underlying code freely kernel or otherwise, including changing the kernel API.
Alan
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