Re: /dev/sndstat

Hannu Savolainen (hannu@opensound.com)
Sun, 30 Nov 1997 00:59:49 +0200 (EET)


On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> Hi fellows,
>
> is their any arguement for /dev/sndstat bein in the /dev/directory ?
> In my opinion this is absolutely wrong there and should be put in
> /proc, maybe as /proc/sound. sndstat is not a device driver, itīs a
> status output and as such it has no place in /dev/ ...
The only reason is that the OSS driver works in many other operating
systems than Linux. They don't have /proc so the only way is to have
/dev/sndstat in /dev.

Best regards,

Hannu
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