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
[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
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