Freeman Liu wrote: >> 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? >> > > Taking these applications into consideration, we can change the name to > something else, for example, > /dev/private_dsp, and it will be found by those applications. As for > sadasupport, the change is trivial. > And sadasupport is the only consumer of this device file in this phase.
Why does is the /dev/ entry needed at all ? What in userland needs to open that /dev/ entry and use it ? -- Darren J Moffat
