ALSA implementation

[Tomas Carnecky]

Jan Zerebecki wrote:
> As explained in the mail refrenced above the main problem is that
> in wine the alsa callback signal (that we currently use) won't
> work properly without special care, but the fd based method (for
> example with select) should work as expected. 

Why won't it work without special care? Is it because of the SIGIO 
signal? Wouldn't the fd-method require a separate thread?

tom