Sean this project of yours is definitely going around in circles. Can you describe in great detail the problem you are trying to solve and lets see if we can find a clean design for you. X has any number of mechanismns that can provide the sort of services you want but there is usually one or two mechanisms that stand out once the problem is clearly defined. So I can assume you wish to write a X Audio driver framework that will be in some manner software configurable. What are you trying to do at configuration time? Godfrey At 11:20 -0800 01-11-26, Sean Morrell wrote: justin@mac.com writes: You can probably get this to work, but I think, in general, it's A Bad Idea. What, exactly, are you trying to achieve? Oh, I was just looking for another way of configuring my device driver from user space. The sysctl mechanism was suggested by a gentlemen a few days ago. But I don't believe it will work in my situation. This device is one of a series. Several devices of the same model can be connected on a single system. And there is no way of identifying each device uniquely, other than USB address. So I would need a set of settings for every (model, USB address). I don't see sysctl being applicable here. Tell me if I'm wrong. I just thought it might be easier to have the configuration done via a pipe or message queue. Any suggestions? Regards,
Justin