Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Multiple applications using sound drivers? | Date | Sat, 27 Feb 1999 18:54:49 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.SOL.3.96.990227175458.1212B-100000@gauguin.ececs.uc.edu>, Rafa el Reilova writes: +----- | I think the un*x way is to have a sound server processs manage the | different sound sources from userspace, and have only the sound server | talk directly to the kernel drivers. Of course, all programs which talk | directly to /dev/dsp would have to be recoded to use the sound server | library and API. +--->8
Not necessarily. esd, for instance, provides an "esddsp" script which LD_PRELOADs a shared library which intercepts opens of /dev/dsp and opens a channel to esd instead. (Of course, this fails for setuid programs.)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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