Re: sound and control-c

Navindra Umanee (navindra@cs.mcgill.ca)
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:05:49 -0400

Nimrod Zimerman <zimerman@deskmail.com> wrote:
> because I figured 'cat something.wav > /dev/dsp' isn't the proper way to
> play a sound file anyhow, and proper sound players are capable of stopping
> the sound immediately (they have a system call to do that).

I've noticed that the problem also occurs with the wavplay and
playmidi programs (and probably others). I just gave 'cat' as the
simplest example...

> Maybe this is a non-issue, hence. When I get some time, I'll take a look
> again.

Thanks,
Navin.

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