On Friday 11 February 2005 01:35 am, you wrote: > The other sound modules don't have a problem because they can make > sure they never do blocking operations - I imagine the same can be true > of the alsa client - I just think that right now there can be cases were > certain operations can block (but I'm hardly an alsa9 expert). sound and linux in general is "bad". I'll poke around the alsa api and see if the is a non-blocking capability. How about a step back, is there a sound API that can be "universal" for all unix-like crossfire clients? -- Bob Tanner < tanner at real-time.com > | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = AB15 0BDF BCDE 4369 5B42 1973 7CF1 A709 2CC1 B288