beep(1): Initial version of utility to create terminal beep via soundcard.

[• hselasky]

Summary

MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: NVIDIA Networking

[• hselasky]

Make gain option work.

[• hselasky]

Wrap a long line.

[• hselasky]

Waveform can be adjusted with the WAVE_POWER macro. 0.5 means pure sinewave.

[emaste]

usr.sbin/beep/beep.c

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We have bool now

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B missing

[• hselasky]

Add support and documentation for -B option.

[• hselasky]

Make gain logarithmic - suggested by @emaste .

[• hselasky]

Add missing free() - makes valgrind happy.

[• hselasky]

Advanced usage:

beep -B && beep -B -F 660 && beep -B -F 330

[emaste]

built-in chord support?

[pstef]

Excuse me, but I only have stylistic questions.

usr.sbin/beep/beep.c

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Sorry, I'm a bit too tired to double check against style(9), but these seem to be in wrong order.

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Why the ugly underscores?

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Is this Gray encoding, after Frank Gray?

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I may be wrong, but I think we want to avoid using atoi() in new code.

[pstef]

usr.sbin/beep/beep.8

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Aren't we dropping this from wherever we can legally?

usr.sbin/beep/beep.c

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is this daemon(3)? That returns an int, which would mandate an explicit comparison.

[emaste]

usr.sbin/beep/beep.c

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Indeed atoi(3) says

The atoi() function has been deprecated by strtol() and should not be
used in new code.

[emaste]

usr.sbin/beep/beep.8

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Yeah the standard copyright template for new code no longer has this. It's not a big deal but serves no purpose so if there's no other reason to include it (e.g. your employer requires it) then I'd leave it out.

[• hselasky]

Thanks for all comments. I'll address them later today.

usr.sbin/beep/beep.c

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Yes, I'll fix the spelling.

[• hselasky]

usr.sbin/beep/beep.c

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I'll fix it.

[• hselasky]

usr.sbin/beep/beep.8

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Fixed.

usr.sbin/beep/beep.c

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All includes are now sorted by name.

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Fixed.

[• hselasky]

Handle comments.

[pstef]

Very minor nits, ok to ignore.

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"Kernel includes come first"

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Subjective note, but this looks awkward to me, especially with the quotes. I would just call it as everyone else: "apply Gray code".

[emaste]

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clang-format says:

include <sys/soundcard.h>

#include <err.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <paths.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

[• hselasky]

Will handle the comments tomorrow.

[emaste]

After some IRC discussion, should be /usr/bin/beep, beep(1) perhaps?

[• hselasky]

Address all comments so far.

[• hselasky]

Fix typo in man page.

[pstef]

usr.bin/beep/beep.1

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I don't have the authority to say for sure, but I think we should use space to separate the numbers from the units here and below.

[• hselasky]

Update manual page.

[• hselasky]

Update usage.

[pstef]

usr.bin/beep/beep.1

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Typo, inclusively.

[• hselasky]

Fix typo in man page.

[• hselasky]

Are we good to go for the initial version of beep(1) ? Please accept!

[emaste]

LGTM, a couple of minor comments on the man page that you can consider

usr.bin/beep/beep.1

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play a beep (as you use in the text below) reads nicer to me -- "play beep on soundcard" or even just "play a beep sound"?

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s/to the/on the/ maybe