Re: reading digidal audio (was: which pci sound card does not hav e dr

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:24:00 +0100


Hi!

> > > Before a "Kernel Bloat" diskussion starts: If it is possible to
> write
> > > a user space program which provides a device that could be done
> without
> > > a module. Is it possible to use a demon with a named pipe for
> that?
> >
> > It is possible to go one further. Using something like podfuk you
> could
> > write yourself a file system instead
> >
> > ls /cdrom
> > track1.wav
> > track2.wav
> > ...
>
> (Belive me or not) Exactly that was the idea behind my suggestion.
> Having an audio cdrom filesystem would be "The right solution" (TM).
> But I thought that having an audio cd device would be the first step
> towards it.
>
> What is podfuk?

Patches for nfsd to make it export any filesystem to kernel using
unfsd. Look at http://atrey/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html. Adding new
filesystem to podfuk is pretty easy, and involves modifying midnight
commander. Good luck,

Pavel

-- 
I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. 	   Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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