[vorbis-dev] ogg123 buffer -- help!?!?

[Monty]

> Can somebody give me some ideas on how to do buffering cross-platform?
> 
> open (O_NONBLOCK) - ???
> select (fd+1, NULL, &set, NULL, &tv) - NO - Unix only

Actually, some variant of this is available just about everywhere.  But the 
implementation details can differ even in UNIX and you could screw yourself if 
you also want to use threads.

> fork(); open (block) -- Unix only

Ugly, don't do this.

> threading -- cross-platform mess

Not really.  Unless you're counting on very eclectic features of a particular 
thread implementation, the basic thread mechanisms are essentially the same on 
all platforms.

> plugin modules - too much work
> ifdefs - evil

I suggest tightly compartmentalized threads.  In the old ogg player, the 
threads were part of the playback module (which was different for every 
platform anyway).

Monty

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