[alsa-devel] [PATCH] jack: use eventfd which never blocks.

[torbenh]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 06:09:09PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> torbenh wrote:
> > i think in the case of mmap, there are one byte written -> advance one
> > period rules. these promises are not kept, when the write end is made
> > non-blocking.
> 
> I was not aware of such rules. So, please disregard my review.

(i am not aware of them either....
 but this is the only real explanation i have, why things go wrong.
 with the O_NONBLOCK patch and flash)
 and also why the read does not eat all data thats in the pipe)


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> Alexander E. Patrakov
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torben Hohn