OpenBSD: Why and How (2016)

Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) by clarry on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:24AM (#21523685)

For a different take, consider audio APIs. I've yet to find a man page that tells me how to use ALSA. There's a clutterfuck of doxygen docs if you want to get lost.. https://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/

Or you can buy a nice little library from OpenBSD where the PCM part is sufficiently described in one short man page: http://man.openbsd.org/sio_open.3

(With enough detail so that you can use it to write e.g. a latency-aware rhythm game that manages to keep audio and video in sync...)

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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) by jim-jim-jim on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:45PM (#21529347)

I love sndio. I was able to write a little synthesizer for it using nothing more than the man pages. It's weird to think that I'm using OpenBSD rather than macOS for music-making, but the latter is just too complex and unpleasant to work with.

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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) by basilisks on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:12PM (#21531773)

Do you have the source somewhere public by chance? Sounds like a fun learning project.

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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) by juped on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:22PM (#21531381)

A very endearing trait of OpenBSD developers is that when they make a system facility, it has a great C API.

Can you beat "uint32_t arc4random(void); void arc4random_buf(void *buf, size_t nbytes); uint32_t arc4random_uniform(uint32_t upper_bound);" as a RNG API? (No. Add it, glibc.)

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