On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:48:35PM +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote: > > How is this exclusive access given to Jack ? > > Exclusive access is not given to it. Jack takes exclusive access when you > start it. If it's unable to get exclusive access it will fail to start. There is nothing in jack's alsa backend code that tries to get exclusive acces. The simple fact is that ALSA pcm devices are always exclusive. The only exceptions being the dmix/dsnoop devices which usually don't work very well with jack. > Once it has started, other programs will be unable to access that audio > device. The device is released when jack stops. Correct. -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
