On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:49:01AM -0700, Unix Fan wrote: > This is an interesting topic, I also noticed that multiple > applications couldn't open /dev/audio at the same time... > > Doesn't this make it impossible to record and listen to audio > from ones microphone at the same time? quite... archaic don't you > all agree?
you don't need to open /dev/audio twice to play and record in full-duplex. The current audio(4) API allows apps to play and record simultaneously. -- Alexandre