From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sound Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:52:15 +0200 Message-ID: <01c51469$Blat.v2.4$8b55ba20@zahav.net.il> References: <87y8dohlq3.fsf@boron.hillenius.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108588510 16324 80.91.229.2 (16 Feb 2005 21:15:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:15:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 16 22:15:09 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1WVj-0005L7-2Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:15:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1Wlj-0006eD-Pn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:31:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1WhP-0004iq-Ut for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:27:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1WhK-0004gZ-NQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:27:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1WhJ-0004U6-Tn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:27:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D1WAf-00022y-LT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:53:17 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-83-130-209-13.inter.net.il [83.130.209.13]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id AOB60082 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:53:09 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: <87y8dohlq3.fsf@boron.hillenius.net> (message from Gijs on Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:56:20 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24140 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24140 > From: Gijs > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:56:20 +0100 > > But (for example) > Welcome to the Emacs shell > ~ $ play file.wav > > works > > Why!? Does Emacs handle sound by its own, bypassing the OS? I don't know what you meant by ``bypassing the OS''. Emacs uses the OS interface to the sound device (ioctl, write, etc. system calls), but if you were asking whether it calls the `play' utility internally, then no, it doesn't. However, the system calls Emacs issues to play the sound are supposed to be the equivalent of what `play' does.