Re: Strange interrupt behavior in 2.2.0(and pre)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:26:52 +0000 (GMT)


> I believe this is a deliberate feature to keep the device open so that
> other devices cant make /dev/dsp unavailable to esd. (or for the more
> paranoid, it's designed that way to get you to switch all your sound apps
> to ESD).

The current one should be able to avoid that. As I pointed out to the
author the current behaviour is more in incentive not to run ESD in some
cases than anything else.

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