[nas] NAS 1.6g (devel) is available

[Jon Trulson]

 	at http://radscan.com/nas.html

 	Here is the release note portion for 1.6g:


10/22/2004 1.6g

         - 1.7 release candidate

         - corrected a possible race condition in auvoxware that could
           cause the server to hang under certain conditions.  I do not
           know why I haven't seen this problem before, but I could
           recreate it easily by killing auplay while playing a long
           tune.

           If the system restarts syscalls after a signal handler has
           run, a situation could arise where the previous timer was
           never disabled.  This could cause a previous ioctl(DSP_SYNC)
           called from setSampleRate() to be constantly interrupted and
           restarted, causing an apparent hang.

           Now we just turn off the timer as the first thing in
           setSampleRate() so DSP_SYNC can actually finish.

           We also turn off the timer when openDevice is called, so the
           'wait for device to become available' code can work too.

         - Patch from Tobias Diedrich that allows mixer init to
           fail in the voxware server.

           Quote:

           With this patch "aoss nasd" works, without it would fail
           (aoss is the alsa oss wrapper script, which simply preloads
           libaoss.so, a wrapper library similar to libaudiooss).

           Combining this with the alsa dmix feature should allow nas
           to coexist with other daemons like artsd.

           See http://radscan.com/nas/nas-ml/msg01121.html for more
           details.

         - redid the FAQ in an attempt to make it more useful.  I'll
           try to keep it up to date.

         - updated libtool due to a problem(s) reported by Steve
           McIntyre.


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