Re: [linux-audio-dev] hearnet improvement

I did reply to Dmitry earlier by email, but for posterity, I integrated
his patch and released a new version. I think I posted to the announce
list but I'm not sure if it came through or not. If not, head on over to
http://hans.fugal.net/typo/articles/2006/10/10/hearnet-0-0-9

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 at 22:00 +0400, Dmitry Baikov wrote:
> Hi!
> First of all, thanks for a great program!
>
> I made two patches for it:
> 1) make hearnet suid and drop privileges right after libpcap initialization.
> I had to move libpcap init code above jack
>
> So, you can use hearnet as regular user.
>
> 2) Mutex in jack_process is a very bad thing. Moreover, it seems
> there's no need for it, as voice->active field serves as a mutex.
> Attached patch removes pthread_mutex.
> If you think voice->active assumption is a weak one, the problem can
> be solved with a pair of jack_ringbuffers: one for free voices and one
> for active.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dmitry.

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