2010/2/11 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>: > On Wed, 10.02.10 10:45, Maarten Bosmans (mkbosmans at gmail.com) wrote: > >> The other mode is the system-wide daemon mode. This follows more the >> traditional unix model of a dedicated pulse user running a daemon to >> which other users can connect. The system mode is more applicable to >> an audio server/appliance scenario. > > I would actually argue that the normal per-session PA logic is much > more unixish than anything else. At least on my classic TTYs the bell > sound was actually generated in the terminal computer and not on the > server computer. And on the old standalone X terminals, it's the very > same thing. XBell() is called on the terminal server, and the X terminal > generates the sound. That makes sense for the bell. I was referring to the daemon though. In my view the system wide daemon running as a dedicated user (apache, postgres) is an example of the traditional unix model and the per-user daemon (dbus, pulse) is another approach that is gaining a lot of popularity lately on linux distributions. Maarten > So, what was true for teletype and X terminals back in the 80s, where > the beep sound was played by an app on the terminal server and > generated on the terminal client, is still true in the PA world: the > audio stream a music player app plays on the terminal server is played > back on the terminal client. > > So, once and for all, if someone complains that PA wasn't unixish > enough: first of all, I don't care, and secondly that's a completely > bogus statement and is not true. > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ ? ? ? ? ? GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss >
