Re: [linux-audio-user] virmidi and 2.6.14 (Demudi)

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Sun Jan 22 2006 - 00:51:10 EET

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 23:47 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 16:08 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > > What would be the best setup for a third case: sending from Dosemu to
> > > Dosemu or more generally: sending from one program, that can only use
> > > rawmidi/OSS ports to another program, that can only use rawmidi/OSS
> > > ports?
> >
> > Fix the apps?
>
> They aren't broken. ;)
>
> In the past I just did some symlinks to /dev/snd/midiCxDx, which
> works fine, but maybe this isn't necessary?

While many people think it's a neat trick, "cat foo > /dev/midi"
and /dev/dsp and ioctl()s on /dev nodes and what not is an interface we
are trying to move away from. So they are not necessarily broken, they
are just being stubbornly old fashioned.

Lee
Received on Sun Jan 22 04:15:11 2006

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