2008/043 [Phase 1 of OSS for Solaris]

[Freeman Liu]

Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Freeman Liu wrote:
>>> Given that /dev/dsp is a well-known name, and applications are quite
>>> likely to find it entirely by accident (for example, by way of
>>> ./configure tests), how will it be kept reasonably "private" until
>>> you're ready to expose it?
>>>   
>>
>> Taking these applications into consideration, we can change the name 
>> to something else, for example,
>> /dev/private_dsp, and it will be found by those applications. As for 
>> sadasupport, the change is trivial.
>> And sadasupport is the only consumer of this device file in this phase.
>
> Why does is the /dev/ entry needed at all ?  What in userland needs to 
> open that /dev/ entry and use it ?
>
In this phase, only sadasupport open it by ldi_ interface. And in the 
future, both user land applications and
sadasupport will use it. I feel this solution can avoid unexpected 
effect as well as make the future migration
smooth.

Best regards
  Freeman