re: kern/54229: audio in firefox stops playing

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

thanks for fixing the /dev/sound semantics back to netbsd-7.

> I personally think /dev/sound's such sticky behavior is the good old
> days and is not suitable for modern system...

please don't remove this feature.

i've used it infrequently over the years and i'm fairly sure i have
at least one script that relies upon it (even though they could be
rewritten.)

it would not be sane to keep /dev/sound as a valid device if the
semantics of it were changed (ie, the sticky removed) since that
is explicitly the difference between them (and something we
effectively gained from OSS-compat.)

thanks.


.mrg.