> Once I created /dev/dsp as a link to /dev/audio, the linux realaudio
> client died after an ioctl(fd, 0xc0045006, ...) call failed with EINVAL.

Also, as another datapoint, the SunOS RealAudio player (on NetBSD/sparc
funnily enough) dies when it could not find /dev/audioctl.

Regards,
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