Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] midi input forwarder ?
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2001 - 17:06:22 EEST
Julien Patrick Claassen wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I think if you have ethernet, there may be another possibility. I just
> thought about it, but because I'm not at my own pc now, I can't check this
> out.
> You can export partitions over the network. So you can export the
> /-directory of one pc to the other and then you maybe can create a link
> from one /dev-directory to the other. So that E.G. your
> desktop-/dev/midi-port appears in your laptop-/dev-directory, for example
> as /dev/midi1 or so.
> Maybe it's worth a trial...
i guess this is a no-starter. nfs is not really what you'd call a
latency-optimised interface :-D
and seriously, when your local kernel finds a remote /dev/midi
entry, it still gets handled by your local machine. this is why you
can have diskless systems which mount everything from a server and
still you can write to device files and the data ends up on the
diskless client where it belongs, not on the server.
what you could probably do is write to a remote FIFO and read from
another machine, but i doubt it will work, because i'm not sure how
FIFOs handle chunk size and what kind of data stream /dev/midi
expects.
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