On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 13:44 -0500, xiphmont@xiph.org wrote:
On 2/27/07, xiphmont@xiph.org xiphmont@xiph.org wrote:
I think what you want is some system-wide private PA mixer service that only per-session PA instances can connect to over a private protocol.
That is actually one possibility up for consideration, but I think needlessly complicated.
Rather, I should say the idea up for consideration is a thin authenticator that is the only trusted connection mechanism for a system pulse.
Yea, that's sort of what I meant. The system-wide bit would just pass a fd over a socket to the per-session pulse.
That still doesn't directly help out the emulation case though.
So, why can't the emulation bits pass the fd from the open(2)'er of /dev/dsp to the right PA instance? These bits could live in the system-wide bit...
We can't ship broken stuff, and regressing sound counts as broken.
There's no regressions if we decide not to use PA by default; things will still just suck as bad as they did for FC6, FC5, FC4 and FC3.
David