[linux-audio-dev] Behaviour of write() in blocking/non-blocking mode

Greg Ward gward at python.net
Wed Nov 27 22:29:00 UTC 2002


On 27 November 2002, I said:
> I'm rather confused by the semantics of write() in blocking and
> non-blocking mode.  Specifically, in the default mode (blocking, no
> SNDCTL_DSP_NONBLOCK ioctl() call) [...]

Oh yeah, almost forgot a somewhat related question: is there a way to
put the dsp device back into blocking mode?  Ie. to undo the effect of
ioctl(dsp, SNDCTL_DSP_NONBLOCK)?  Or is it a one-way-only operation?

        Greg
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