Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

Tue Sep 23 12:24:17 UTC 2008

On Tue, 23.09.08 08:09, Alan Cox (alan at redhat.com) wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:39:24AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > Everyone hates ioctl()s. The kernel people do. The userspace people
> 
> Not true. Ioctl has a very important place in things.

Sure they have. But its an awkward interface. Everything multiplexed
via a single syscall. Unreadable/unpronouncable names. No type-safety,
not even size-safety. No proper signatures. ioctl()s are awful.

Lennart

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