On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:51:07 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > The thread that calls the user's callback function is completely > hidden, and so it can wait only for the trigger form jackd and nothing > else. As a consequence you can't use it to communicate safely with your > callback which would be easy if the thread and the synchronisation > mechanism were visible.
Thats largly for portability reasons, the callbacks aren't allways in a thread, eg. for IE clients. Adding a thread which is syncronised with the calback thread is very easy and more portable. - Steve
