[alsa-devel] Unblock MIDI IN in blocking read mode

[Florian]

Hi,

for best performance, I use a blocking snd_rawmidi_read() on an ALSA
MIDI input device, byte by byte. It works fine, except:

1) How do I close the device from a different thread? I.e. how can I
unblock the blocking read() call when it's time to close the device
and no MIDI data is currently coming in?
Just calling snd_rawmidi_close() will cause a crash. Using
snd_rawmidi_drop() did not release the blocking read() in the other
thread.

2) How is a blocking read() typically implemented in the ALSA MIDI
driver? Maybe I can resort to non-blocking mode and avoid the
situation above.

Thanks,
Florian


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