[alsa-devel] Alsa-OSS Duplex bug (revisited)

[Clemens Ladisch]

Alan Horstmann wrote:
> So that there is no misunderstanding, are you willing to confirm that, as far 
> as Alsa-OSS goes, opening both
> 	input_handle = open("/dev/dsp", O_RDONLY)
> and
> 	output_handle = open("/dev/dsp", O_WRONLY)
> at the same time is a reliable way to open the device bi-directional, enabling 
> different sample formats and/or numbers of channels to be set?  (Actually, I 
> am curious whether different sample rates would also work?)

Yes; yes.

This is the _only_ way.  If the hardware supports it, any driver (not
only ALSA) has no choice but to support this.


Regards,
Clemens