From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] kw audio -- /dev/audio and friends
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:31:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimqQvvzzU+6=N3xhfcNd=2_hNvw+o7rqgBkMfoX@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2577c8.0aa552af.tqKm.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net>
Changing a device's file format in a backwards-incompatible way
is not something to be done lightly. In addition to changing all
drivers you'd have to change every user program that reads from
or writes to them, even ones that you don't know exist.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-26 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-26 14:06 Tristan Plumb
2010-10-26 14:31 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2010-10-26 14:49 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-27 12:30 ` Tristan Plumb
2010-10-27 12:50 ` Lucio De Re
2010-10-27 13:29 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-27 14:15 ` Tristan Plumb
2010-10-27 18:58 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-10-27 20:07 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-10-27 21:05 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-28 0:11 ` Tristan Plumb
2010-10-28 3:01 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-10-28 7:53 ` yy
2010-10-28 12:38 ` Tristan Plumb
2010-10-28 13:07 ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-28 13:26 ` Tristan Plumb
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