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authorAlexandre Ratchov <ratchov@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-09-08 20:42:59 +0000
committerAlexandre Ratchov <ratchov@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-09-08 20:42:59 +0000
commitbb6a81bf0e317376711b506bec7a1cd1344777c9 (patch)
treec5761cc4c84ce790552b6036cf9d2b6a5337aac3 /share
parentb98c3d13bea9bfa99afbe64d0932b4c38ebbb824 (diff)
Remove reference to /dev/sound*. With tweaks from jmc@, thanks.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/audio.421
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/audio.4 b/share/man/man4/audio.4
index a74144faed0..ec8a8418ce3 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/audio.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/audio.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: audio.4,v 1.74 2016/09/08 05:18:20 ratchov Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: audio.4,v 1.75 2016/09/08 20:42:58 ratchov Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: audio.4,v 1.20 1998/05/28 17:27:15 augustss Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -51,16 +51,13 @@ underlying audio hardware drivers.
The audio layer provides full-duplex operation if the
underlying hardware configuration supports it.
.Pp
-There are four device files available for audio operation:
+There are three device files available for audio operation:
.Pa /dev/audio ,
-.Pa /dev/sound ,
.Pa /dev/audioctl ,
and
.Pa /dev/mixer .
.Pa /dev/audio
-and
-.Pa /dev/sound
-are used for recording or playback of digital samples.
+is used for recording or playback of digital samples.
.Pa /dev/mixer
is used to manipulate volume, recording source, or other audio mixer
functions.
@@ -68,10 +65,10 @@ functions.
accepts the same
.Xr ioctl 2
operations as
-.Pa /dev/sound ,
+.Pa /dev/audio ,
but no other operations.
In contrast to
-.Pa /dev/sound ,
+.Pa /dev/audio ,
which has the exclusive open property,
.Pa /dev/audioctl
can be opened at any time and can be used to read the
@@ -80,18 +77,11 @@ device variables while it is in use.
.Sh SAMPLING DEVICES
When
.Pa /dev/audio
-or
-.Pa /dev/sound
is opened, it attempts to maintain the previous audio sample format and
record/playback mode.
In addition, if it is opened read-only
(write-only) the device is set to half-duplex record (play) mode with
recording (playing) unpaused.
-In all respects
-.Pa /dev/audio
-and
-.Pa /dev/sound
-are identical.
.Pp
Only one process may hold open a sampling device at a given time
(although file descriptors may be shared between processes once the
@@ -514,7 +504,6 @@ string values.
.Bl -tag -width /dev/audioctl -compact
.It Pa /dev/audio
.It Pa /dev/audioctl
-.It Pa /dev/sound
.It Pa /dev/mixer
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO