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                     37: .Dd October 16, 1997
                     38: .Dt OSSAUDIO 3
1.8       garbled    39: .Os
1.1       augustss   40: .Sh NAME
                     41: .Nm ossaudio
                     42: .Nd OSS audio emulation
1.6       perry      43: .Sh LIBRARY
                     44: .Lb libossaudio
1.1       augustss   45: .Sh SYNOPSIS
1.13      ross       46: .Fd #include \*[Lt]soundcard.h\*[Gt]
1.1       augustss   47: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     48: The
                     49: .Nm
                     50: library provides an emulation of the OSS (Linux) audio
                     51: interface.
                     52: .Pp
                     53: Use the native interface for new programs and the emulation
                     54: library only for porting programs.
                     55: .Sh SEE ALSO
1.7       augustss   56: .Xr audio 4 ,
1.11      msaitoh    57: .Xr midi 4
1.14    ! wiz        58: .Sh HISTORY
        !            59: The
        !            60: .Nm
        !            61: library first appeared in
        !            62: .Nx 1.3 .
1.2       augustss   63: .Sh BUGS
1.14    ! wiz        64: The emulation uses a #define for
        !            65: .Fn ioctl
1.5       augustss   66: so some obscure programs
1.2       augustss   67: can fail to compile.
                     68: .Pp
                     69: The emulation is incomplete.
1.5       augustss   70: .Pp
1.10      simonb     71: The emulation only covers
1.14    ! wiz        72: .Fn ioctl ,
1.5       augustss   73: there are other differences as well.  E.g., on a write
                     74: that would block in non-blocking mode Linux returns
                     75: .Dv EINTR
                     76: whereas
                     77: .Nx 1.3
                     78: returns
1.12      jdolecek   79: .Dv EAGAIN .