Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: README no longer mentions symlinks for includes | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 23 Apr 1999 11:56:03 +0200 |
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Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> writes:
|> In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.9904231006500.23512-100000@eos30>, alex.buell@tahalla |> h.demon.co.uk writes: |> >On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Philip Blundell wrote: |> > |> >> >#include <soundcard.h> |> >> > |> >> > no such file: /usr/include/soundcard.h ... |> >> |> >> If you want soundcard support for user programs (and it's something |> >> that would be generally useful) consider sending a patch to the libc |> >> developers. |> > |> >Bad idea, there are a load of user-space libraries for this purpose - |> >for example ESD, OSS, ALSA and so forth. |> |> No, you miss the point. If people are having to use <linux/soundcard.h> at |> the moment that suggests that there are ioctl definitions or something else |> system-specific that is needed by user space. This could be a candidate for |> inclusion into libc if that would be an advantage. Nobody is suggesting |> including full sound functionality into libc -- that would clearly be absurd.
IMHO <linux/soundcard.h> is too special to be included in libc. It should not try to define *all* possible ioctls.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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