[alsa-devel] sending a sequencer event to a delayed queue

[Clemens Ladisch]

Henning Thielemann wrote:
> In order to understand how snd_seq_remove_events works, I looked into
> its source code ... I wondered why I can set the queue as condition
> with snd_seq_remove_events_set_queue but there is no flag that enables
> queue matching

SND_SEQ_REMOVE_DEST enables queue/client/port matching.

> and actually the queue is not checked in remove_match, as far as I can
> see.

Well, it's checked in the kernel. :)  I guess this is a bug in alsa-lib.

> I have another question: Is snd_seq_remove_events atomic, that is, if
> some events have the same time stamp, is it guaranteed that they are
> removed all or none at all? Are events still delivered while removing?

Queues are locked one at a time; events in the same queue with the same
timestamping mode should be removed atomically.


Regards,
Clemens