Re: [alsa-devel] write/read system calls and ioctl

At Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:56:17 +0100, Michael Voigt wrote:

My question: what is snd_pcm_write in pcm_native.c good for? Is it only there to keep ALSA compatible to older versions of alsa-lib?

Yes, exactly. Some apps (e.g. older version of sox) used directly read/write, and this is also for them.

Takashi