Sound translator (was: Full-time developer available)

[Olaf Buddenhagen]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:12:19PM +0000, Diego Nieto Cid wrote:
> El mié., 16 sept. 2015 a las 17:57, Robert Millan (<rmh@gnu.org>) escribió:

> > The other problem I had is that I don't know how to make a single
> > translator
> > service two separate device nodes (obviously you don't want to start a
> > different Rump instance for /dev/audio, /dev/mixer, etc as they would fight
> > each other trying to access the same hardware).
[...]
> What comes to mind, is that a translator can serve a directory and the
> nodes inside it. The console does it, IIRC.
> Thus, you could put the sound translator on top of say /dev/sound-stack/
> which provides audio, mixer, etc nodes. And then link the standard
> locations to there.

That's what I wanted to propose as well. It's both simpler to implement,
and less obscure in use; and I don't see any obvious downsides...

-antrik-