Re: [Plib-devel] SL blocking

[Trent G. <tm...@cy...>]

* Steve Baker <sjb...@ai...> wrote:
> From the way SL is supposed to meter it's data rate 
> to suit the rate it's disappearing into the sound card,
> this shouldn't matter - but I guess you wouldn't have said
> this if it worked OK for you.
>
> Could you explain?  (Not that I mind making the change - I
> just like to understand what's going on).

Sorry, it's nothing like that. The call to open just hangs forever
if there is something else using the device. Adding O_NONBLOCK makes
that call fail and return right away, and then a dummy driver is set
up I think?