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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: problems: flushing during snd_pcm_wait()
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:52:59 +0200
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At Fri, 11 Oct 2002 01:25:19 +1000,
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> Hello
> I have an application that has many different threads.
> The sound card's PCM buffer is full during playback, and one thread is 
> currently in snd_pcm_wait() waiting for enough space to appear in the 
> buffer before doing the next snd_pcm_write().
> A different thread wants to flush the buffer. There are two types of 
> flush: -
> 1) Immeadiately empty the buffer.

snd_pcm_drop() ?

> 2) Stop accepting snd_pcm_write() commands until the current buffer has 
> drained.

snd_pcm_drain() ?


Takashi


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