Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA vs ALSA ... silent for a while

2001-06-25 Thread Benno Senoner
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, you wrote: I want LAAGA working on OSS/Free , OSS too. That's one of the reasons why I do prefer keeping it separate. A backend for OSS is scheduled (although low priority). That's not an option. Many developers (including me) do not have the time to keep up with

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA vs ALSA ... silent for a while

2001-06-25 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
[Abramo wrote] I think that the best solution would be the integration of ALSA with LAAGA (with obvious mutual benefits). This likely means some changes to ALSA API too. I would like LAAGA to be a fast, lean, easy to use, higher level (than the sound driver itself) API that _hides_ the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] sysv semaphores instead of pipes

2001-06-25 Thread Paul Davis
the problem with semaphores is that Unix/POSIX semantics don't allow integration of a process sleeping on an file descriptor and a semaphore (one of the few areas where Windows definitely improves upon Unix). this would mean adding yet another thread that just sleeps on the semaphore used to