Re: Full duplex in sound driver?

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:24:45 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Thomas Sailer wrote:

>> What about converting only in the case of mmap?
>
>You probably mean converting only when doing read/write.
>This is what ALSA does.
>
>IMNSHO one could remove the mmap interface, as there is
>nothing that couldn't be done as easily without it,
>and it complicates the sound driver so much that you can
>never be sure that there are no security problems for
>example.
>
>FreeBSD btw. got this almost right.
>
>The problem is that a "killer application" considered important
>(quake) uses it.

id would likely release an update. Or the source...

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