On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 09:19:57AM -0700, J. Liles wrote:

> Are you seriously saying that the equivalent of doing:
>
> if ( nsm_is_active )
>       save_here( file );
> else
>       save_there( file );
>
> Would require a complete rewrite and overhaul of your application? Say you
> don't want to do it... That's fine. Say you don't like the NSM
> design--that's fine too. But don't just make up wild hyperbole out of
> laziness...

:-)

A question: according to the docs, a client should consider itself
'managed' after receiving the reply to the 'announce' message. But
at that time it has no path to save anything 'New' or 'Load'ed.
If I understand the docs correctly, the 'open' message specifying
this path will follow immediately. But still this is a possible race
condition. So shouldn't a client consider itself managed only after
having received the first 'open' message ?

Yes. Well, there's a bit of a fine distinction between being managed and being part of the session. The application could conceivably receive a 'quit' message before the 'open' message, but that would never actually happen in the current implementation and doesn't make a lot of sense anyway. I think you're probably right in that for all practical purposes 'open' is the time to consider the application managed.