Re: Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 02:37:48PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> OTOH OSS' programmers interface *is* the ioctls themselves. And that's
> one reason why its API sucks.

Thats a 'nobody wrote the library' case

> Also, OSS is practically not virtualizable. (LD_PRELOAD and CUSE are
> hacks, that only work for the smallest part) The timing model is
> broken. The entire design is hardware-specific, and focusses on hw we

The timing model is crap, but the rest of the design is neither hardware
specific no focussed on twenty year old hardware - in fact todays hardware
looks more and more like the hardware of twenty years ago but with more
channels.