10 Things I Hate About UNIX

http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=424451

Everything he said, I agree wholeheartedly.

What's better than Unix and addresses all of his 10 points, /prog/?

What would the plan9 way for implementing /dev/dsp be, keeping in mind the different audio formats and ways of buffering? Like getting the number of available audio channels, setting the format to interleaved, changing the sampling rate, etc.

If I recall correctly it is done in linux by using an ioctl system call on a /dev/dsp file handle with constants provided in header files.