Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 02 Nov 2000 15:03:47 +0100 | From | Thomas Sailer <> | Subject | Poll and OSS API |
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The OSS API (http://www.opensound.com/pguide/oss.pdf, page 102ff) specifies that a select _with the sounddriver's filedescriptor set in the read mask_ should start the recording.
Implementing this is currently not possible, as the driver does not get to know whether the application had the filedescriptor set in the select call. Similarily for poll, the driver does not get the caller's events.
Different drivers do it differently. The ISA SB driver just unconditionally starts recording on select, whether the bit in the read mask is set or not. es137* unconditionally does not start recording. Both drivers violate the API.
I don't think this is all that important though, because it's that way for more than a year and the first complaint reached me yesterday.
Comments?
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