[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#277539: libasound2: shm gid support missing

[Tobias Diedrich]

Package: libasound2
Version: 1.0.6-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Alsa provides options to specify shm permissions, but it is currently
not possible to specify a shm gid.

So, if I want to use dmix system-wide I have to use shm_perm 0666, but
I'd rather use shm_perm 0660 and shm_gid audio if that were possible.

In my case the problem is that I am using nasd (Network Audio System)
and want to use aoss/dmix to share the sound device between nasd running
as root and the local user (as my soundcard does not do hardware mixing).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (3000, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1-ruby
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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