Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:02:24PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> So Boomer is interested in this for a couple of reasons:
>>
>> 1) map a /dev/audio (or /dev/dsp) node to a Sun Ray session -- necessary
>> for OSS API where applications don't respect an environment file. This
>> is the single biggest pressure for this feature right now.
>>
>
> BTW, this is what I meant by "audio virtualization". I realize now that
> that means something else to you, probably something like a mixer.
>
>
>> 2) for security domains where a zone based configuration can specify a
>> real device and possible limitations or other settings to use for the
>> device.
>>
>
> I'm not sure how zones doesn't already cover that. Can you elaborate?
>
So in a trusted environment, they want to have a "logical" /dev/audio
that is associated with the zone -- but which carries "special"
attributes. For example, for a while, it may have record access, but
then when switching to a call in another zone (with a different label),
you want to "change" which zone has record privilege.
- Garrett
> Nico
>
