Hi Matt! Matt Zimmerman [2005-08-18 15:32 -0700]: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:13:41PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:23:19PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > I patched esound to work with several parallel instances, so that > > > several logged in users can get sound: > > > > This breaks third party commercial applications. I have no intention of > > doing > > this. The socket name really can't be changed. (Did you read the changelog > > before making this change?) > > Perhaps the first socket could be named in the traditional way, and > additional ones named using the uid. This way, non-free applications > continue to work as well as can be expected, and we still solve the problem.
This is indeed a compromise that would mitigate this problem without breaking other stuff. Ryan, compared to Debian's status quo this would not create any regression AFAICS. What would you think about this? Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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