Hi Yair,

Many thanks. In the hg version now.

Best regards,

Hannu
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Yair K. wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The attached patch deals with a problem on FreeBSD:
>
> Quite a few programs (e.g. SDL based) have a common override to a bug 
> which
>
> used to exist in ALSA's OSS emulation (IIRC): they open the device 
> with O_NONBLOCK set, and then use fcntl to return to blocking mode. 
> Since these programs shared the OSS plugin with FreeBSD, this is done 
> on that platform too.
>
> However, internally FreeBSD (un)sets blocking mode using 
> FIONBIO/FIOASYNC ioctls [this is called whenever fcntl(fd, F_SETFL,..) 
> is used], and OSSv4 doesn't recognize those ioctls - it returns 
> EINVAL, and the fcntl call fails, often along with the program[1]. The 
> patch deals with these ioctls. In addition, there are misc changes 
> elsewhere (remove nonsupported parameter from oss_envy24ht, add 128 
> case to oss_sbpci since it's mentioned in the manpage).
>
> [1] e.g. http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=614
>
> Yours,
>
> Yair K.
>
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