From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Chris=20Rankin?= Subject: Re: [BUG] alsa-lib leaves sound device open for child processes Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:35:45 +0000 (GMT) Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030207193545.84329.qmail@web40602.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Paul Davis Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org --- Paul Davis wrote: > not clearly so. there are very few resources > accessed via a file > descriptor that require this being done. You think? Try unmounting a filesystem or unloading the ide-cd kernel module if (say) xscreensaver has been spawned by (say) xine, but xine has carelessly leaked a file descriptor to a movie file, DVD device etc. (But not with current versions of xine... ;-) > the fact that an application has to understand this > only adds to the > problems with the block-on-open design. Save me from application programmers who don't understand what they're doing... ;-/! Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com