| Updated: October 28, 2024 | 
Stop playback or capture immediately and discard buffered data (plugin-aware)
#include <sys/asoundlib.h>
int snd_pcm_plugin_drop( snd_pcm_t *pcm,
                         int channel );
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.
EOK on success, a negative errno upon failure. The errno values are available in the errno.h file.
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| Safety: | |
|---|---|
| Cancellation point | No | 
| Interrupt handler | No | 
| Signal handler | Yes | 
| Thread | Read the 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.