Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:19:37 -0500 | From | Doug Ledford <> | Subject | Re: esound (esd), 2.4.[12] chopped up sound -- solved |
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David Ford wrote: > > Actually you probably upgraded to a non-broken version of esd. Stock esd -still- > writes to the socket without regard to return value. If the write only accepted > 2098 of 4096 bytes, the residual bytes are lost, esd will write the next packet at > 4097, not 2099. esd is incredibly bad about err checking as is old e stuff. > > I posted my last patch for esd here and to other places in June of 2000. All it > does is check for return value and adjust the writes accordingly. For reference, > the patch is at http://stuph.org/esound-audio.c.patch.
Why would esd get a short write() unless it is opening the file in non blocking mode (which I didn't see when I was working on the i810 sound driver)? If esd is writing to a file in blocking mode and that write is returning short, then that sounds like a driver bug to me.
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