Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 02 Nov 2000 09:35:59 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Poll and OSS API |
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"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > The specification is bogus and should be fixed. select() is not > a function that was designed to start/stop anything. Writing > a specification to qualify some particular implementation's > side-affects is patently wrong. ioctl() was designed to control > things. > > You should contact a committee member and get it fixed. Further, > all should fail to write code to such a so-called specification. > > If specifications are allowed to be written like this, soon > the lights will go out when you open a file. This cannot be > allowed. Don't support such diatribe.
We are stuck with the current OSS API, including warts aplenty, until ALSA replaces it. (but even then OSS will live on in infamy...)
Jeff
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