From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 16:55:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62A816A4B3 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:55:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E2F43F93 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:55:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ripper@eskimo.com) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00568 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:55:36 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id QAA05709 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:55:36 -0700 From: Ross Lippert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031012165536.A5234@eskimo.eskimo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i WWW-Home-Page: http://www.eskimo.com/~ripper Subject: fixing motherboard sound X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:55:39 -0000 OK, I found one of the problems that the festival app was having playing on my system. Apparently, the authors assumed that a SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC ioctl() was not necessary before a close() because the close() is supposed to sync. I have found, however, that it does make a difference. Is close() supposed to cause a SYNC, as far as anyone knows? I am not subscribed. -r