Re: OSS API redirector

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>]

David Lloyd wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> 
>>What is the conclusion regarding fopen/fclose/fwrite/fread. Can it be
>>done?
> 
> 
> I thought that one rather pie-in-the-sky idea might be to use a kernel
> module that made /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer, etc., and reflects back to a
> userspace ALSA sound server via another device.  This way, it doesn't
> matter how the device is opened.
> 
> Might be difficult to do though, especially when you get mmap and 
> dma involved.
> 
> Just a thought, anyway.
> 
> - D
> 
> 
I thought of that, but with that you just get different problems.
E.g. dmix only works is all application wishing to play sound are run by 
the same user. You would probably need some daemon to run the /dev/dsp, 
and that user deamon would have to run under the same user as any native 
alsa app.

Cheers
James



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