At Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:03:27 +0200, Arve Knudsen wrote: > > Hello > > Users of the PortAudio library on top of ALSA-lib have reported that it may > hang in a call to snd_pcm_drain. I have also been able to confirm that this > can happen in conjunction with the dmix device at least. Can the ALSA > developers please tell me how, if at all, snd_pcm_drain may be safely used? > Is this function simply best avoided (snd_pcm_drop being the alternative)? Of course, it's supposed to be safe to use :) But, it's hard to tell you more unless I get the details in your case... In which situation is it called? Are they multi-threaded? Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
