On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:15:36 -0500 Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > To add '-perform_sanity_checks' command line switch not preventing users from doing both stupid and smart things would be against UNIX philosophy and bloat ? It is not obvious to new users that both ALSA and OSS exist; Linux distros sometimes use OSS driver instead of ALSA one, so end user might miss this. I think your post is just another argument in favor of UNIX/Linux haters proving their point of inherent UNIX/Linux user unfriendliness (it's not that Windows OS inherently/always user-friendly, but Linux/UNIX should be better than Windows, and it's a separate issue). ------------------------------------------------------- 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
