Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The gnome-cd people had to go to some effort to make it work that way; > > one wonders what advantages they were going for. > > The newer machines don't have an analogue cable for this to save a few cents Figures. It leads to some interesting behavior - like the CD continuing to play for a couple of seconds after the disc has been ejected. I suspect it will drive more users into the "we need extra low latency!" camp as well. jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net corbet@xxxxxxx