Subject: Re: /dev/sound, non-blocking IO, and select
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Alan Post <apost@recalcitrant.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/07/2005 02:44:01 
In article <1112834454.538.3.camel@localhost>, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> 
> The problem: select on the /dev/sound fd is never saying that data
> is available. Why is this the case? Isn't there always sound
> available to read?

On my system, I have to do a read to get the audio to start, before
calling select the first time.

  Alan