Re: esound (esd), 2.4.[12] chopped up sound -- solved

[David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>]

a) not all drivers are created equal
b) esd should check the return value anyway

-d

Doug Ledford wrote:

> David Ford wrote:
> >
> > Actually you probably upgraded to a non-broken version of esd.  Stock esd -still-
> > writes to the socket without regard to return value.  If the write only accepted
> > 2098 of 4096 bytes, the residual bytes are lost, esd will write the next packet at
> > 4097, not 2099.  esd is incredibly bad about err checking as is old e stuff.
> >
> > I posted my last patch for esd here and to other places in June of 2000.  All it
> > does is check for return value and adjust the writes accordingly.  For reference,
> > the patch is at http://stuph.org/esound-audio.c.patch.
>
> Why would esd get a short write() unless it is opening the file in non
> blocking mode (which I didn't see when I was working on the i810 sound
> driver)?  If esd is writing to a file in blocking mode and that write is
> returning short, then that sounds like a driver bug to me.

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