[linux-audio-user] virmidi and 2.6.14 (Demudi)

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 23:47 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 16:08 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > > What would be the best setup for a third case: sending from Dosemu to
> > > Dosemu or more generally: sending from one program, that can only use
> > > rawmidi/OSS ports to another program, that can only use rawmidi/OSS
> > > ports?  
> > 
> > Fix the apps?
> 
> They aren't broken. ;)
> 
> In the past I just did some symlinks to /dev/snd/midiCxDx, which
> works fine, but maybe this isn't necessary?

While many people think it's a neat trick, "cat foo > /dev/midi"
and /dev/dsp and ioctl()s on /dev nodes and what not is an interface we
are trying to move away from.  So they are not necessarily broken, they
are just being stubbornly old fashioned.

Lee