--- Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May I ask what the child process is supposed to to > with a raw ALSA file > descriptor? AFAICT, developers are supposed to use > the alsa-lib API, and > not write to FD's. So the underlying file descriptor > looks to me like a > mere implementation detail which 99% of all users > shouldn't need to care about.
I consider this situation analogous to the relationship between file descriptors and FILE* pointers. By your argument, libc should probably set the FD_CLOEXEC flag here, too. But it doesn't. Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
