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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: dsnoop, dshare and dmix plugins
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:23:45 +0100
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To: Kristof Pelckmans <Kristof.Pelckmans@antwerpen.be>
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At Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:02:06 +0100,
Kristof Pelckmans wrote:
> 
> I wonder how you know that the number you assign is not in use...

well, there is no guarantee for that.

i think it would be more understandable to have the string type ipc
key, such as

pcm.dmix {
	type dmix
	ipc_key_str /usr/alsa/foo
	...
}

which generates an ipc key via ftok().


Takashi


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