From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: play-sound-file & esd Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 14:41:31 -0400 Organization: disorganization Message-ID: References: <44572E8B.6060102@swipnet.se> <44585258.7040506@swipnet.se> Reply-To: sds@podval.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146854533 30246 80.91.229.2 (5 May 2006 18:42:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 18:42:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 05 20:42:01 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fc5FY-0004tn-1Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 20:42:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fc5FX-0002mr-Nc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 14:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fc5FN-0002kQ-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 14:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fc5FL-0002j0-PS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 14:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fc5FL-0002iv-M2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 14:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fc5FY-000379-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 14:42:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Fc5FH-0004sD-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 20:41:43 +0200 Original-Received: from 209.213.205.130 ([209.213.205.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 May 2006 20:41:43 +0200 Original-Received: from sds by 209.213.205.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 May 2006 20:41:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.213.205.130 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q2Ry8gdYCJVrgNGMelGhxdUMrQU= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53961 Archived-At: > * Richard Stallman [2006-05-03 16:42:58 -0400]: > > If we still are going to play sound with esd, may I suggest just > execing esdplay with the file name? > > If such a simple method does the job, it is fine with me. if esd just happens not to be running at the moment, then esdplay will just hang. i.e., before running esdplay, one has to ensure that esd is up and running (and is in a workable state). -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) on Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) http://pmw.org.il http://honestreporting.com http://memri.org http://ffii.org http://dhimmi.com http://jihadwatch.org http://camera.org Those who beat their swords into plowshares plow for those who do not.