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38.Dd October 16, 1997
39.Dt OSSAUDIO 3
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm ossaudio
43.Nd OSS audio emulation
44.Sh LIBRARY
45.Nm -lossaudio
46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47.Fd #include <soundcard.h>
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51library provides an emulation of the OSS (Linux) audio
52interface.
53.Pp
54Use the native interface for new programs and the emulation
55library only for porting programs.
56.Sh SEE ALSO
57.Xr audio 4
58.Sh HISTORY
59The
60.Nm
61library first appeared in
62.Nx 1.3 .
63.Sh BUGS
64The emulation uses a #define for
65.Fn ioctl
66so some obscure programs
67can fail to compile.
68.Pp
69The emulation is incomplete.
70.Pp
71The emulation only covers
72.Fn ioctl ,
73there are other differences as well.
74E.g., on a write that would block in non-blocking mode Linux returns
75.Dv EINTR
76whereas
77.Ox
78returns
79.Dv EAGAIN .
80