On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 20:57 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Humans (end users) are supposed to answer this question by looking at > the output of some Linux utilities. >
The distro's init scripts/modutils/hotplug/udev configuration is supposed to make sure that this is not possible. Users who don't use a distro or compile everything from source are expected to know what they are doing. Anyway this is rarely a problem, it's just to make sure. > Can't ALSA programs look at the output of the same utilities (by > invoking > them) and tell users that their ALSA attempts are senseless in the > presence > of OSS ? This would be bloat. The UNIX philosophy is not to prevent users from doing stupid things as this would also prevent them from doing clever things. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
