On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:51:07 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
The thread that calls the user's callback function
is completely
hidden, and so it can wait only for the trigger form jackd and nothing
else. As a consequence you can't use it to communicate safely with your
callback which would be easy if the thread and the synchronisation
mechanism were visible.
Thats largly for portability reasons, the callbacks aren't allways in a
thread, eg. for IE clients.
Adding a thread which is syncronised with the calback thread is very easy
and more portable.
- Steve