[linux-audio-user] Re: Making Audio on Linux Just Work: (1) defining the goals

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:52 +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> writes:
> 
> > 			Making Sound Just Work
> > 		       ------------------------
> 
> >        - multiple applications using soundcard simultaneously
> 
> 
> Yes, but maybe also this:
> 
> Possibility to give access to the soundcard only to one application (or a
> list of applications) excluding all others.

That's easy, the app that needs exclusive access just opens the hardware
device directly rather than using the default PCM.

There's no way to prevent multiple access on devices that support
hardware mixing.

Lee