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From: "R. Dresens" <chromisx@nedlinux.nl>
Subject: Re: Detecting new alsa sequencer clients (with some
 event loop) so that i can subscribe them
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 23:24:00 +0200
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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:01:50 +0200
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> wrote:

> > A possible solution is polling; every second or so, i could
> > generate a list of clients with snd_seq_query_next_client and
> > look for a certain client name (libpcre comes to mind here;), but
> > I was wondering if there is a better solution? ..in other words, is
> > it possible to get such events from the system in a similar way
> > like one would receive regular  MIDI events?
> 
> Subscribe to SND_SEQ_CLIENT_SYSTEM:SND_SEQ_PORT_SYSTEM_ANNOUNCE.
> Try "aseqdump -p 0:1" to see what events you get.

Yes, that did the trick: this is exactly what I'm looking for.

Thanks for your help!

Greetings,

Raymond Dresens.