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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: reeintrant
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:54:43 +0100
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To: Frank Uepping <Frank.Uepping@epost.de>
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At Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:43:24 +0100,
Frank Uepping wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> is the ALSA libAPI0.5 reeintrant/thread-save?

yes, it should be.

> I want to develop an multi-threaded application that does playbacking
> and recording in separate threads.
> I determined from the documentation that I have two possibilities to achieve this:
> 1.) Playbacking/recording on a single handle (mode PLAYBACK|CAPTURE).
> 2.) Playbacking/recording on separte handles.
> What is cheaper?

ALSA supports only a uni-direction per handle, although on alsa 0.5.x
api it looks like bi-directional.

anyway, i recommend you to use ALSA 0.9.0 if you start a project from
now on.  ALSA 0.5.x is no longer developed.


ciao,

Takashi

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