Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 23.09.08 10:54, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski (dominik at greysector.net) wrote:

> > > Do you mean Open Source Software or Open Sound System? In case of OSS,
> > > it's realy a shame, because it was (and still is) a great piece of software
> > > with nice API and doesn't require any external libraries like ALSA.
> > > But you can't compare console/X to OSS/ALSA. The latter provide functionality
> > 
> > I must correct you: the OSS API sucks. And ALSA is certainly a far
> > greater piece of software than OSS ever was, and among the reasons is
> > precisely the fact that it is a proper library instead of some fucked up kernel
> > interface based on ioctls().
> > 
> > Everyone hates ioctl()s. The kernel people do. The userspace people
> > too. An API for application usage that is based around ioctl()s is
> > thus mandatorily a big failure.
> 
> The people whose opinion I value disagree. I have no strong opinion
> of my own, because I never wrote code to interface with either ALSA
> or OSS.

Oh my. So you know someone who thinks that ioctl()s are ingenious API
design? You probably should choose your friends more carefully, then. ;-)

Lennart

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