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On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:54:30PM -0800, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Carlo Florendo, le Thu 15 Nov 2007 09:45:54 +0800, a ?crit :
>> Nikodem wrote:
>> >Is it planned to support OSS? Many programs use it, and that's native 
>> >Linux lib :(
>> 
>> The OSS suites are Linux kernel modules.  (And why OSS when there's ALSA?)
>> 
>> Windows has its own sound API and I don't think OSS could be ported to 
>> windows.
>
>Why not?  OSS is actually just a bunch of ioctls.

Take a look at fhandler_dsp.cc in the cygwin sources.

cgf

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