On Tuesday, 23 September 2008 at 01:39, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 15.09.08 16:07, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski (dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
