On Jan 23, 2008 6:17 AM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote: > Freeman.Liu at Sun.COM writes: > > >Do you intend to promote /dev/dsp to higher visibility in a future > > >phase of the project? If not, you should consider removing it and > > >have references to it refer instead to the corresponding node in > > >/devices (which already has private visibility). > > > > > > > > Yes. Visibility and stability of /dev/dsp will be promoted in the > > following phases. > > Given that /dev/dsp is a well-known name, and applications are quite > likely to find it entirely by accident (for example, by way of > ./configure tests), how will it be kept reasonably "private" until > you're ready to expose it?
This would be my concern as well. Many "portable" audio libraries check for the existence of this file and assume you have OSS if it exists. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
