On Tue, 23.09.08 10:54, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski (dominik(a)greysector.net)
wrote:
> > Do you mean Open Source Software or Open Sound System? In
case of OSS,
> > it's realy a shame, because it was (and still is) a great piece of
software
> > with nice API and doesn't require any external libraries like ALSA.
> > But you can't compare console/X to OSS/ALSA. The latter provide
functionality
>
> I must correct you: the OSS API sucks. And ALSA is certainly a far
> greater piece of software than OSS ever was, and among the reasons is
> precisely the fact that it is a proper library instead of some fucked up kernel
> interface based on ioctls().
>
> Everyone hates ioctl()s. The kernel people do. The userspace people
> too. An API for application usage that is based around ioctl()s is
> thus mandatorily a big failure.
The people whose opinion I value disagree. I have no strong opinion
of my own, because I never wrote code to interface with either ALSA
or OSS.
Oh my. So you know someone who thinks that ioctl()s are ingenious API
design? You probably should choose your friends more carefully, then. ;-)
Lennart
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