On Mon, 25 May 2009, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 25 May 2009 20:27:14 +0200, > Werner Van Belle wrote: >> >> Takashi Iwai wrote: >>> You can control it via fcntl(). See fcntl(2) man page. >>> >> I looked at that but I didn't find any place in alsalib (or libalsa >> whatever the order of those two words), where I can obtain the file >> handle. They are all of type pcm_something_t. I found a file handle >> quite deep in this library but there seems no way to actually obtain >> that handle. > > OK, I see the problem now, too. In practice, you can get a file > descriptor from poll descriptor, but this doesn't cover all underlying > fds. A new API function or an additional SND_PCM_* flag for > snd_pcm_open() would be needed, indeed. The question is if it's not better to free also allocated memory associated to the pcm handle in child process - so snd_pcm_close() call in child is not a bad idea. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
