Re: [Liboss-devel] osscat

[Alexander S. <ast...@it...>]

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On Sunday 20 October 2002 06:21 pm, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
> Making a real /dev/dsp would be an interesting project, but it's not
> really necessary. I was thinking about it mostly because it's not
> always a great idea to #define common words like "open". For example,
> the aRTs oss code uses open() to open /dev/dsp, but also has a C++
> method someClass::open(). Liboss currently would not work there, since
> it would turn someClass::open() into someClass::oss_open()--but the
> best workaround is probably just to hack on aRTs's oss module. Just
> make an #ifdef in soundcard.h so that aRTs can #include it without
> #defining open(), and then make aRTs explicitly use oss_*() when
> necessary. I guess the folks upstream might not like that hack, so we
> could just make it into a whole new file "audioliboss.cc" or something.

Um... just do this:
inline int open(whatever_the_args_are) {
return oss_open(whatever_the_args_are);
}


> I'm not sure that I agree that liboss should be moved from esound to
> CoreAudio. To make liboss based on CoreAudio, we would need to spawn a
> daemon, do a lot of IPC, do some conversion between types of sound,
> etc--esd already does most of this, is it worth rewriting all that? The
> things that esound doesn't do perfectly are:

No, not if it's a shared library like my esddsp hack is.

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