snd_pcm_plugin_drop()

Updated: April 19, 2023

Stop playback or capture immediately and discard buffered data (plugin-aware)

Synopsis:

#include <sys/asoundlib.h>

int snd_pcm_plugin_drop( snd_pcm_t *pcm,
                         int channel );

Arguments:

pcm
The handle for the PCM device, which you must have opened by calling snd_pcm_open_name(), snd_pcm_open(), or snd_pcm_open_preferred().
channel
The channel; SND_PCM_CHANNEL_CAPTURE or SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK.

Library:

libasound.so

Use the -l asound option with qcc to link against this library.

Description:

The snd_pcm_plugin_drop() function stops playback or capture immediately and discards buffered data. This all happens immediately, even if the channel's current state has been set to SND_PCM_STATUS_SUSPENDED or SND_PCM_STATUS_PAUSED by the current audio concurrency management policies.

If the operation is successful (zero is returned), the channel's state is changed to SND_PCM_STATUS_READY.

Returns:

EOK on success, a negative errno upon failure. The errno values are available in the errno.h file.

Errors:

Additional information for common error values:
-EINVAL
The state of pcm is invalid, an invalid channel was provided as input, or an invalid state change occurred. You can call snd_pcm_channel_status() to check if the state change was invalid.

Classification:

QNX Neutrino

Safety:  
Cancellation point No
Interrupt handler No
Signal handler Yes
Thread Read the Caveats

Caveats:

This function is not thread safe if pcm (snd_pcm_t) is used across multiple threads.

This function is the plugin-aware version of snd_pcm_channel_drop() . It functions exactly the same way. However, make sure that you don't mix and match plugin- and nonplugin-aware functions in your application, or you may get undefined behavior and misleading results.