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SubjectRe: Multiple applications using sound drivers?
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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.)

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