Re: [alsa-devel] cloning snd_seq_t (or creating one from client id)

Tobias Schlemmer wrote:

ALSA imposes a policy that is obviously is not necessary from a technical point of view as every program instance can use different sequencer clients already with the current implementation at the cost of worsening the usability. My suggestion is to losen this restriction.

What you call "loosening this restriction" would actually involve a nontrivial amount of code.

P.S.: We are talking about the library API right?

Most of the client event handling is implemented in the kernel.

However, a threadsafe event (de)multiplexer could just as well be implemented completely outside of the ALSA library.

Regards, Clemens