Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> > >
> > > but it is very inflexible as i must have one program driving both input
> > > and output.
> >
> > The AWE64 is capable of hardware mixing. Not entirely sure on this one,
>
> you are speaking of something else - while it's very interesting too.
> no mixing is needed. just allowing /dev/sound or /dev/audio to be opened
> once for reading and once for writing and to work full-duplex this kase.

Well, you can't implement one open for read and one open for write and have
it work the way you want with the current kernel design.
You can make a kludge that allows you to open for read and write separately,
but if you close one of them you can't open it again until they are both
closed.

    -- Lennart