[Jack-Devel] Client-Server models are just fine. Please?

[tom at trellis.ch]

On Tue, February 2, 2016 16:17, Filipe Coelho wrote:
> On 01.02.2016 18:18, tom at trellis.ch wrote:
>
>> to put in other words i wondered if a client can ask to "autostart" a
>> temporary dummy server with only a few arguments easily code-wise
>> (assuming *any* jack has a dummy backend built-in) instead of relying
>> on the ~/.jackrc file. the other non-dummy cases are more
>> dialogue-demanding, no question.
>
> Actually, yes.
>
>
> See https://github.com/jackaudio/jack1/blob/master/libjack/client.c#L868
>
>
> You can create your own jackdrc file and set the env var 'JACK_RC_FILE'
> to that before calling jack_client_open. That way if jack is not running
> yet, the jackd command will be read from that file instead of the default
> ~/.jackdrc.
>

this is a nice hack, i will try :)
grep -r JACK_RC_FILE in jack2 source directory didn't reveal anything
while in jack1 did so this must be a jack1 speciality.
thanks for the hint!
cheers
tom