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SubjectRe: Poll and OSS API
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:

> The specification is bogus and should be fixed. select() is not

Don't tell me, I didn't write that spec.

> side-affects is patently wrong. ioctl() was designed to control
> things.

It already exists, ioctl(fd, SNDCTL_DSP_SETTRIGGER, PCM_ENABLE_INPUT).
If we officially declare the poll/select side effect to be
unacceptable, I'm happy with it, as my sound drivers already
work that way 8-)

Tom
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