Ehhhh OSS is really not great, even v4. Re-using Unix file I/O functions for audio sounds clever, but falls apart pretty quickly in the real world. Even in the

Ehhhh OSS is really not great, even v4. Re-using Unix file I/O functions for audio sounds clever, but falls apart pretty quickly in the real world. Even in the best case where you manage to shove every audio feature into open, read, write, and ioctl, it's never going to feel good to use (type safety...). I don't mourn the loss of OSS.