Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] efficient non-blocking writes to /dev/dsp
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 21:21:10 EEST
In message <3ACA0F36.11209E92_AT_pp.htv.fi>you write:
>Christopher Lee wrote:
>>
>> I've written a fixed version using select() that works, but it seems
>> that it leads to 1 or 2 byte transfers being done on many of the
>
>I have to warn here. There are many soundcard driver's that don't properly
>support select()!
right. which is just one of several reasons to abandon the OSS API and
use ALSA instead, where select/poll work on all supported hardware
(because the mechanism is not so dependent on the h/w-specific code).
--p
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