[vorbis] Transcoding listening test

[Paul Jarc]

Greg Wooledge <greg at wooledge.org> writes:
> Hongli Lai (hongli at telekabel.nl) wrote:
>> mv music.mp3 /dev/audio.
> 
> Do *NOT* do that.  Or at least, not as root -- as a user, you should just
> get an error message.  As root, you'll end up overwriting your /dev/audio
> character device with a regular file, and you'll be wondering how to put
> it back....

/dev/audio might be writable by non-root users.  But regardless, you
won't lose the device file unless /dev is writable (only for root)
*and* music.mp3 is on the same filesystem (very unlikely).

paul

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