Bug#364730: [Pkg-alsa-devel] [kapil@imsc.res.in: Bug only with aoss]

[Johannes Rohr]

Elimar Riesebieter schrieb:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 the mental interface of
> Kapil Hari Paranjape told:
>   
[...]
>> The problem may be that alsa-oss redefines mmap. Perhaps it should be
>> redefining mmap2.
>>     
>
> Hmm, do you have a special version of mutt which annonces your mail
> by a voice of choice? Any way, I can start
>
> $ aoss mutt
>
> with no problems.
>   

Well, you can /start/ it, but as soon as mutt /does/ anything
substantial, i.e. expunge a mailbox, copy a message etc., it will crash.


> But I don't know. why I need that.....

Well, the point is that I had LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libaoss.so in my
.bashrc for some time, in an attempt to make OSS applications "just
work". Obviously this has a number of unwanted side effects.

Thanks,

Johannes