[alsa-devel] Releasing a handle without closing ?

Hello,

I have an intruiging problem. I have two processes: a parent and a child. The parent forks off the child (as can be expected, the opposite would be somewhat unsettling), after it allocated and started to write to a pcm device. As can be expected, the child will also have a link to this dsp device. The problem now is that the child wants to release the pcm handle without closing it. Is there any particular function offering such possibility ?

Wkr,-