Subject: Re: /dev/sound == LINUX /dev/dsp?
To: Richard Rauch <rauch@eecs.ukans.edu>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/27/1999 21:17:49
Richard Rauch wrote:

> Can you shed any light on any relation to Sun?  Here's a comment from one
> of the source files (slDSP.cxx):
>
> /* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
> /* OpenBSD 2.3 this should be very close to SUN Audio           */
> /* ------------------------------------------------------------ */

'tis true.  They are very close, there are probably some small differences, but
they might be considered as bugs.

> Ignoring pragmatic issues (drivers, commercial support), is there a
> technical reason to prefer one to the other?

Well, the OSS API is not a work of art.  Nor is the *BSD API, really, but
IMHO it's better.

    -- Lennart