Since I seem to be the only person using this feature (with the possible exception of ratchov@ himself), here's a periodic reminder that you can use sndio OVER THE NETWORK.
Optical drives are kind of passé, but I still keep a working USB one around. I hooked it up to a convenient machine--an old sparc64 with USB1.1, as it happens--slotted in an audio CD, then took my laptop and went into a different room. On the laptop I restarted sndiod with -L-, then ssh'ed to the machine with the CD and ran $ AUDIODEVICE=snd@laptop/0 cdio cdplay ... and that's it. Music in my laptop headphones. Because we can. Sndio doesn't have any built-in authentication. You can use ssh's port forwarding if you don't want to run it over the naked network. In my case, IPsec over the WPA2-secured wireless seemed enough. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
