Re: [PATCH] Free OSS device on pause

>> I cannot comment on the technical quality of the patch, but I have to
>> say it's a feature I'd be glad to have in XMMS.
>
> xmms already close() and open()s the DSP interface upon un-pausing. I
> only inserted another close() on the pausing and left the other code
> paths how they were (it is not a problem to close() an already closed
> descriptor) as I don't know the whole picture.

Unless the descriptor number was reused elsewhere. That would be bad 
surely. Are you sure the FD won't be reallocated for use elsewhere between 
the two close() calls.