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LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

Posted Sep 23, 2008 9:09 UTC (Tue) by fergal (subscriber, #602)
In reply to: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess by mezcalero
Parent article: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

Seems to me that everything is a file doesn't have to mean that everything is a single file. You don't have to represent your whole soundcard via a single file. Think of /proc or /sys.

The problem is it is quite difficult for a program to present itself as a coherent set of files. While it can easily enough produce a file-like interface, it cannot easily produce a directory-like interface.


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