PulseAudio

[xiphmont at xiph.org]

On 2/27/07, David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Rather, I should say the idea up for consideration is a thin
> > authenticator that is the only trusted connection mechanism for a
> > system pulse.
>
> Yea, that's sort of what I meant. The system-wide bit would just pass a
> fd over a socket to the per-session pulse.

Backwards.

> So, why can't the emulation bits pass the fd from the open(2)'er
> of /dev/dsp to the right PA instance? These bits could live in the
> system-wide bit...

Please, no more talk of LD_PRELOAD.  I will resign before I pin the
future of Linux Audio on an LD_PRELOAD hack.  Dead serious.  It is a
non-starter.

> There's no regressions if we decide not to use PA by default; things
> will still just suck as bad as they did for FC6, FC5, FC4 and FC3.

Sure, problem solved.

Monty