Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > By the way, use of $AUDIODEV has been a standard technique since at > least Sun Ray first shipped. Its not new on Solaris. > > In situations where there is more than one audio device, /dev/audio > won't necessarily point to the right device anyway. The fact that the > 3rd party app can't use a different audio device is a severe shortcoming > in the app. > > -- Garrett >
Picking output device selection at open time seems quaint, given our in-kernel mixer architecture. For example, how does virtual terminal support work with /dev/audio? If I plug in a USB headset, do I need to restart all applications using audio to redirect the sound to the headset? Why not just think of /dev/audio as a virtual I/O device, and map it to real hardware, network connections, dynamically? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
