made writeable by the root user. Userspace audio daemons can add or
update an entry in /dev/sndstat by doing a single system write call to
any /dev/sndstat file descriptor handle. When the audio daemon closes the
file handle or is killed the entry disappears.
While at it, cleanup the sound status code a bit:
- keep the device list sorted to avoid sorting the list every time a
/dev/sndstat read request is made.
- factor out locking into a pair of locking macros.
- use the sound status lock to protect all per file handle states,
when generating the output for /dev/sndstat and when removing or
adding sound status devices. This way sndstat_acquire() and
sndstat_release() become superfluous and can be removed.
Reviewed by: mav @
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5191
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