[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 04.01.10 15:58, Bill Cox (waywardgeek at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > The problem of course is that the tts daemon needs to watch this too
> > and not choke if the device access to that soft_synth device goes
> > away.
> 
> Ok, so I could modify both espeakup and speechd-up to use udev and
> deal with what happens with /dev/soft_synth rights go away.  I can do
> that.

They wouldn't have to link to udev at all. As mentioned they should
simply use inotify() and access() to minitor devices access coming and
going on /dev/soft_synth.

Lennart

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